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

Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Mooltan (2nd Lieutenant A. W. Garnett, Sappers and Miners) officially engraved in running script, an official ‘Indian Mutiny’ replacement,, with silver brooch bar, good very fine £200-250

Arthur William Garnett was born on 1 June 1829. Educated in the East India Companys School at Addiscombe, he obtained his commission in the Bengal Sappers & Miners as a 2nd Lieutenant on 12 June 1846. Going to India in 1848 he was appointed Assistant Field Engineer with the Army before Mooltan and was wounded while in attendance on Sir John Cheape reconnoitering the breaches but recovering, was able to take charge of the scaling ladders in the subsequent assault. Following the 2nd Sikh War he was involved in building forts on the North West Frontier. Promoted Lieutenant on 15 February 1854, he was still serving on the N.W. Frontier at the time of the Indian Mutiny. Garnett was promoted 2nd Captain on 27 August 1858 and Captain in 1860. He died of pleurisy at Calcutta on 1 May 1861. There is a tablet to his memory in Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, London.