Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Condr. A. Heffernan. Agra Magazine) minor edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £500-£700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Simon C. Marriage Collection of Medals to the Artillery.

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Dix Noonan Webb, March 2021.

Alexander Heffernan was born in Dublin and attested for the Royal Artillery at Kilkenny on 26 October 1832. Posted to the 2nd Company, 4th Battalion, R.A., he arrived in India on the troopship Warren Hastings on 1 July 1833. He was transferred to the Town Major’s list with the rank of Quarter Master Sergeant on 13 August 1845, and from January 1856 he officiated as a Sub Conductor.

During the Great Sepoy Mutiny Heffernan held the position of Conductor within the Commissariat at Agra Fort, and lived at M1 Block, Armoury Square, West Side with his wife. The Agra Fort Directory census taken by Assistant Surgeon J. P. Walker on 27 July 1857 shows him by name along with several thousand Europeans who took shelter in the Fort at the outbreak of the Mutiny.

Heffernan was pensioned off on 10 August 1862 and returned to New Park, Kilkenny.