Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Indian Mutiny Medal awarded to Private William Hay, 93rd Highlanders, who was wounded at Kudgwa in November 1857

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Wm. Hay, 93rd Highlanders) suspension re-fixed with pins through shoulders of claw, contact marks, nearly very fine £260-£300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robin Scott-Smith Collection of Medals to Casualties.

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William Hay was wounded in the right thigh at Kudgwa on 1 November 1857. He did not serve in the Crimea, being at Parkhurst Barracks and Dundee, April 1854-March 1855, and afterwards recruiting at Edinburgh until March 1856.