Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

The Third Mahratta and First Burma Wars campaign medal to General Richard Budd, 32nd Madras Native Infantry

Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Maheidpoor, Ava (Captn. Rd. Budd, 32nd N.I.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, some edge bruising and a little polished, therefore very fine
£2500-3000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Ritchie Collection of H.E.I.C. and British India Medals.

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Ex Payne 1910 and Mackenzie 1934.

Approximately 75 clasps for Maheidpore were issued to European recipients, including 39 medals with these two clasps.

Richard Budd, the son of Daniel Budd of Petrockstow, near Hatherleigh, Devon, was born in January 1797, and received a classical and mathematical education at Mr John Adamwaithe’s Academy. He was nominated for a Cadetship in the Madras Infantry by Robert Williams, Esq., on the recommendation of David Carruthers, Esq., and sailed for India aboard the Indus. Posted to the 1/16th Madras Native Infantry in June 1812, he was engaged in the ‘Pindarrie Dours’ in 1815-16, during which were made ‘dozens of night marches & frequently for nights in succession.’ Promoted Lieutenant in November 1816, he served throughout the Third Mahratta War, and had a share of the Prize taken at the Battle of Maheidpoor, fought on 21 December 1817, when Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Hislop’s force, out-numbered by more than three to one, decisively defeated the army of Jaswant Rao Holkar of Indore. He also took part in the action at Talnair and in the pursuits of Trimbuckjee, Holkar, and Bajee Rao to his surrender, near Asseerghur.

In May 1819 Budd was appointed Adjutant of 2/16th Madras N.I., (32nd Madras N.I. from June 1824), and relinquished that appointment on promotion to Captain in 1825 during the First Burma War. In 1826 he was appointed Acting Assistant Adjutant General in Tenasserim, and afterwards Superintendent of Public Buildings for four months of the same year. Between August 1829 and November 1831, he served as Acting D.A.A.G., Southern Division.

Budd was next actively employed in the Coorg War of 1834 with the Western Column of the Coorg Field Force, being present at the forcing of the Huggul Pass. He was mentioned in Colonel Fowles’s despatch of 14 April 1834, when it was reported that ‘the officers who were most conspicuous with the Flank Companies’ were ‘Lieutenant A. Donelan of H.M.’s 48th Foot who commanded the Grenadiers, and Captain Budd who commanded the Grenadiers of the 32nd Regt. ... These officers led their men most gallantly and but for them the loss would have been much greater’. In September of that year he was employed under the Commissioner of Tenasserim to raise and discipline a body of Talims for duty in that region. In November 1835 he was appointed to officiate as Assistant Commissioner in Mysore and in October 1838 became Superintendent of the Bangalore Division, retaining that post until 1844.

Budd was promoted Major in 1838, and Lieutenant-Colonel in November 1843. He served as Brigadier commanding Bangalore from October 1855 to May 1856, and as Commandant of the Southern Division of the Madras Army between May 1857 and 1862. In 1858, he succeeded to the Colonelcy of his old corps, the 32nd Madras N.I. and held that appointment until 1866. From 27 February to 25 December, 1861, he was Provincial Commander-in-Chief, Madras Presidency. In May 1862 he went on furlough to Europe and did not return to India. He attained the rank of full General on 8 July 1874, and retired on 1 October 1877. General Budd died at Belfont, The Park, Cheltenham, on 22 January 1885.

Refs: Hodson Index (NAM); Modern English Biography (Boase); IOL L/MIL/11/39, 50-64; IOL L/MIL/9/125/; IOL L/MIL/11/2, 11 & 1; IOL L/MIL/5/82; IOL L/MIL/9/259, 124-127.