Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Major Louis Fisher, 40th Foot, late 82nd Foot

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lieut., 82nd Regt.) possible correction to first initial; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (Captn., 40th Regt.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £600-700

Louis Walter Fisher was born at Dunkeld, Scotland, on 23 July 1833, son of Henry Fisher M.D., late Surgeon of the 7th and 63rd Regiments. He was first commissioned as an Ensign in the 67th Regiment on 17 June 1851, and promoted to Lieutenant in February 1855. He transferred to the 82nd Regiment in September 1855 and served with them in India during the suppression of the mutiny in 1857-58 in Oude and Rohilcund, and was present at the defence of the jail at Shahjehanpore and affairs subsequent to its relief (Medal).

Fisher exchanged into the 40th Regiment as a Captain in September 1861, and subsequently served with the regiment in New Zealand during the Waikato war of 1863-64, including the actions Waiari, 11 February 1864, and Orakau, 31 March to 2 April 1864. At the latter action, which signalled the end of the Waikato campaign, he was severely wounded and granted 3 months pay (Brevet of Major, and medal). Confirmed in the rank of Major in the Army in February 1866, Fisher retired by the sale of his commission on 1 March 1874. Sold with full research.