Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (J. Dilworth, Bombay Eur. Regt.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, fitted with twin-pronged silver ribbon buckle, toned, very fine and unique clasp to the regiment £1,500-£2,000

Glendining’s, February 1906.

John Dilworth is shown on the roll of the 102nd Madras European Fusiliers but was on the Bombay Establishment, some of whom served as Marines during the Burma campaign. Dilworth was the sole surviving man of the Bombay Establishment to claim the medal for Ava.

‘Nineteen armed brigs and schooners (and many smaller boats) of the Bombay Marine were part of the Rangoon and Arakan invasion forces, crewed and staffed by men from the Bombay Establishment.’ (Medals of British India - volume two, part III, Robert P. Puddester refers)

Irish Medals by Oliver D. Cresswell states: ‘A detachment of this regiment [Bombay Europeans] served at Ava as marines’ and, incorrectly ‘but none seem to have claimed the medal.’