Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lieut. R. Bolton, 1st Batn. 6th Regt.) very fine £400-£500

Provenance: Elson Collection 1963.

Richard Bolton was appointed Ensign in the 6th Regiment on 14 June 1854; Lieutenant, 29 July 1856; Captain, 11 March 1859. He served in the Indian Campaign of 1858 and was engaged at the battle of Baraoun, near Jugdespore, under Colonel Caulfield (Medal).

His death was reported in the Dundalk Democrat, and People’s Journal, 17 December 1870: ‘At Surrey, in England, sincerely regretted, in the 35th year of his age, Captain Richard Bolton, late of her Majesty’s 6th Royals, and nephew of the late Richard Bolton, Esq., Bective Castle, Navan, County Meath.’