Orders, Decorations and Medals

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Relief of Lucknow (1745 Cpl. J. Roberts, R.A.), late issue, good very fine £180-220

John Roberts was born in Barking, Essex. By trade a Baker, he attested for service in the Royal Artillery on 29 November 1854, aged 18 years. Promoted to Bombardier in September 1857 and Corporal in October the same year, he served in the Indian Mutiny and was wounded at Alum Bagh, 25 September 1857, when he was hit by a round shot which carried off his left leg. Corporal Roberts was discharged on 4 February 1860 as a consequence of his disability. In receipt of a pension, he was still alive in 1906. Sold with copied discharge papers; also with an original portrait photograph and a daguerreotype, both of the recipient in uniform; the latter with an old label on the rev. reading, ‘Corporal J. Roberts, R.A. (Born 1840) Lost left leg at Defence of Lucknow. With Gen. Havelock’.