Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Defence of Kelat-i-Ghilzie 1842 (Gunner Patrick Keyes 4th. Co. 2nd. Batt. Arty.) naming engraved in a rather heavy running script, not official, fitted with steel clip and bar suspension, heavy edge bruise, traces of lacquer, very fine £1,000-£1,400

Patrick Keyes (also recorded as Keys), a native of Kildangan, Co. Kildare, attested for unlimited service in the Honourable East India Company’s Bengal Artillery at Dublin on 26 September 1825. Arriving in Bengal on 16 May 1826, he was posted as a Gunner to the 4th Company, 2nd Battalion, Bengal Artillery, and was promoted to Corporal in 1832. Reduced to Gunner the following year, he served during the First Afghan War, and died on active service on 28 June 1842.

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