Auction Catalogue

2 July 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 513

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2 July 2003

Hammer Price:
£260

Indian Mutiny 1857-59 (Drumr. J. Wilson, 78th Highlanders), suspension removed, brooch mounted on obverse with additional eyelet above the ‘Queen’s’ head, very fine £150-200

Drummer John Wilson, served at Lucknow with the 1st relief force and was entitled to the clasp ‘Defence of Lucknow’. He died of wounds on 29.11.1857. Sold with copied research details.