Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (S. Lee, 16th Lancers), short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, shows signs of having suffered fire damage causing a pitted surface, other slight contact marks, about very fine £600-700

Samuel Lee was born in Salford c.1796. A brush maker by occupation, he attested for the 16th Light Dragoons at Didsbury, Lancashire on 22 February 1813, aged 16 years. In June 1815, during the Waterloo campaign, he served in Captain J. H. Belle’s Troop, 16th Light Dragoons. After the great battle his regiment converted to ‘Lancers’ and with them he served at the siege of Bhurtpoor, 17-18 January 1826. He was discharged on 11 July 1838, having served 14 years, 282 days in the East Indies. At the time of his discharge, the surgeon’s report stated of him that he had an, ‘enfeebled frame and broken constitution from length of service....’ His conduct and character on discharge was given as ‘indifferent’. Sold with copied discharge papers.