Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Defence of Lucknow, Lucknow (T. Quinlan, 1st Madras Fusrs.) clasps re-fitted in incorrect order, very fine £800-900

Thomas Quinlan was born in Galway. A shoemaker by occupation, he attested for service in the Army at Liverpool on 7 March 1846, aged 18 years, 10 months. During the Indian Mutiny he served in the 1st Madras Fusiliers and was a member of the 1st Relief Force to Lucknow. He was wounded on two occasions at Lucknow; the first on 26 September 1857, when the Fusiliers were making a sortie against the mutineers ‘Garden Battery’ opposite the British ‘Cawnpore Battery’; in the action he was hit by a small shot on the left side of his chest. He was wounded a second time on 31 October 1857 when he received a gunshot wound to the head. This latter may have contriibuted to his discharge on a pension on 31 December 1860 and his early death by inflamation of the brain on 22 February 1861, aged 33 years. Sold with copied research. Clasps confirmed.