Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

Three: Private J. F. Jones, 9th Lancers

Sutlej 1845-46, for Sobraon 1846, no clasp (9th Lancers); Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (9th Lancers); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (9th Lancers), the first two with refixed suspension, severe contact marks and edge bruising, fair to fine, the last about very fine (3) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the collection of Angela and the late Douglas Bertram.

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James Frederick Jones, who was born at Windsor, Berkshire, originally enlisted in the 4th Light Dragoons at Westminster in August 1841. Transferring to the 9th Lancers in April of the following year, he was subsequently present at Sobraon in the First Sikh War, at the crossing of the Chenab and the battles of Chilianwala and Goojerat in the Punjab 1848-49, and in the Lucknow operations of March 1858 - his discharge papers list at least six more actions that he was present at after Lucknow, among them the attack on Fort Roeya and the capture of Bareilly. Jones was finally discharged at Chatham in November 1861, as a result of a hernia.