Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (4315 Pte. S. Capewell 1st. Bn Gord: Highr.) suspension slack, edge bruising, nearly very fine £240-£280

Samuel Capewell, a native of Birmingham, Warwickshire, attested into the Gordon Highlanders, aged 18, on 19 July 1892. He served in India during the Relief of Chitral campaign and was wounded, with a slight graze to his head, during the action at Panjkora River on 13-14 April 1895. Medically discharged the following year, he died in Birmingham in 1912.

Sold with copy service papers, research and a copy of the casualty list for the action at Panjkora River, published in the London Gazette on 15 November 1895.