Auction Catalogue

21 September 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 837

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21 September 2001

Hammer Price:
£800

Three: Captain B. H. Smith, 23rd Punjab Pioneers, late 67th Native Infantry

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Ensign, 67th Regt. N.I.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lieut., 67th N.I., Adj. 1st Oudh Police); China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Lieut., 23rd Regt. Punjab Pioneers) good very fine (3) £500-600

Brenton Halliburton Smith was first commissioned on 20 August 1851; Lieutenant, 8 December 1853; Captain, 15 June 1860. He was one of the first officers of the 23rd Pioneers and features in the group photograph of the officers in China 1860 under Captain R. H. Shebeare, V.C., who died during the campaign. Smith appears to have returned to his old regiment, the 67th N.I., after China and is shown in the Indian Army and Civil List for 1864 as serving with the Staff Corps in Australia. He is not shown in the list for 1867.