Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. Lane, 9th Lancers

Punniar Star 1843 (Private William Lane H.M. 9th or Queen’s Royal Lancers) original hook replaced with a leather strap and affixed to silver straight bar suspension; Sutlej 1845-46, for Sobraon 1846, no clasp (Wm. Lane. 9th Lancers); Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Chilianwala (W. Lane, 9th Lancers.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £1,000-£1,400

William Lane was born in Northwalsham, Norfolk, in 1814, and attested for the 4th Light Dragoons at Westminster on 28 March 1835. He transferred to the 14th Light Dragoons on 14 April 1841, and then to the 9th Lancers on 16 April 1842. He served with them in India for nine years, in the Gwalior, Sutlej, and Punjab campaigns, and was present at the Battle of Punniar, 29 December 1843; the Battle of Sobraon, 10 February 1846; the passage of the Chenab, 4 December 1848; and the Battle of Chilianwala, 13 January 1849. He was discharged on 8 July 1852, after 11 years and 104 days’ service.

Sold together with the recipient’s original Parchment Certificate of Discharge; Account Book; and Parchment Certificate admitting the recipient as an Out-Patient of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, dated 2 February 1864.