Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Asst. Surgn. W. H. Morgan, Mads. Ay.) official correction to second initial, otherwise good very fine £200-250

William Henry Morgan was born on 22 July 1831, and qualified as L.M.S. at Calcutta and subsequently as M.R.C.S. in 1855. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon on the Madras Medical Establishment on 4 August 1855, and served during the suppression of the mutiny in Bengal in 1858, being present at the affairs at Niamutpore, Ramangger, Templa, Nimree and Bhury fort in the Etawah District. He served with a field force under Major Carr, Madras Rifles, in Shahabad from December 1858 to March 1859; with a field force in Bundlecund from April to July 1859, and with a moveable column under Lieutenant-Colonel Babington in Bundlecund in November 1859. He became Surgeon in August 1867, Surgeon Major in July 1873, and Brigade Surgeon in August 1882. He retired on 19 May 1886 and died on 1 July the same year.