Auction Catalogue

17 September 2004

Starting at 11:00 AM

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

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

Lot

№ 302

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17 September 2004

Hammer Price:
£290

Sutlej 1845-46, for Sobraon 1846, no clasp (Chas. Sutton, 9th Lancers) contact marks and edge bruising, about very fine £100-120

Charles Roberts was born in Lambeth, London and enlisted in the 9th Lancers at Brentford in February 1841, aged 19 years. He was subsequently present at the battle of Punniar in the Gwalior Campaign, Sobraon in the First Sikh War, and at the crossing of the Chenab and the battles of Chilianwala and Goojerat in the Punjab 1848-49. He was discharged back at Chatham in July 1857.