A Collection of Medals to the 42nd Highlanders and 73rd Foot (Black Watch)

Pair: Sergeant H. Trydell, 73rd Foot

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Hy. Trydell, 73rd Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (3426 Sergt. H. Trydell. 73rd Foot) the first with re-fixed suspension, light contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (2) £300-360

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 42nd Highlanders and 73rd Foot (Black Watch).

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Henry Trydell was born at Montreal, North America, and attested for the 73rd Foot at St Helier, Jersey, on 16 January 1855, aged 14 years 11 months. He served abroad at the ‘Cape of Good Hope, 2 months; Singapore, 6 months; Ceylon, 4 years 10 months; East Indies, 8 years 1 month’, and was discharged at Kirby on 18 February 1879, on termination of his second period of limited engagement. Sold with copied discharge papers.