Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Chas. Phillips, A.B. Shannon) good very fine £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Naval and Indian Marine Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin.

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Charles Phillips had an erratic and varied career in both the Merchant Navy and the Royal Navy. He served in the Crimean campaign aboard H.M.S. Albion, from which ship he ‘ran’ and never received his Crimean campaign medals. Rated as an Able Seaman he served in H.M.S. Shannon with the Naval Brigade during the Indian Mutiny under the command of Captain William Peel, V.C., C.B., Royal Navy, and was present during the operations at Lucknow. The medal roll states that he was ‘Discharged Dead,’ but no cause or date is given, and that his medal was sent to his sister, Mary, on 16 July 1862. Approximately 284 medals with this clasp issued to the Shannon.