Orders, Decorations and Medals

INDIAN MUTINY 1857-8, no clasp (Wm. Eyles, 53rd Regt.) nearly extremely fine

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to the Shropshire Light Infantry.

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William Eyles was dangerously wounded at the battle of Kudjwa on 1st November, 1857. A detachment of the 53rd had joined up with Peel's Naval Brigade at the end of October, 1857, under the command of Colonel Powell. At Kudjwa Colonel Powell was killed and the command devolved upon Captain William Peel of H.M.S. Shannon.