Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Delhi (Gunner Benjn. Howfield, Arty Recruit Depot.) nearly extremely fine £500-600

Provenance: Dalrymple White Collection, Glendining’s, July 1946.

Benjamin Howfield was born in London, a silk dyer by trade. He attested at Westminster on 16 February 1856, for 12 years, and sailed to India on the Cambodia. A Gunner in the Artillery Recruit Depot, he was killed in action at Badli-ke-Serai on 8 June 1857, the only man of the Artillery Recruit Depot killed that day.