Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Lt. A. W. Brodhurst, 2nd Eurn. Lt. Cavy.) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, nearly extremely fine £500-£700

Arthur Westby Brodhurst was born at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on 21 October 1839, son of John E. Mansfield, a banker of that town, and was nominated as a Cadet for the Bengal Cavalry in February 1857. He was examined and passed on 10 June 1857, and gazetted a Cornet into the 2nd Bengal European Light Cavalry on 24 June following. He was attached to the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays) and served in Sir J. Outram’s Division, at the siege and capture of Lucknow, March 1858, and during the subsequent operations in Oude with the Queen’s Bays under Lord Clyde (Medal with Clasp). Promoted to Lieutenant on 18 May 1858, he shortly afterwards transferred to the 20th Hussars, of which regiment he was Adjutant from January 1865 to February 1868, becoming Captain on 2 August 1871. Captain Brodhurst retired on 13 November 1872, and died in London on 8 April 1876.

Sold with copied Cadet papers and other research including a copied group photograph of 20th Hussars Officers, including Brodhurst, at Umballa, India in 1871.