Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Ensign H P Holford, 79th. Highlanders) good very fine £400-£500

Henry Price Holford was born in 1836, the son of G. C. Holford, Inniskilling Dragoons, and the cousin of Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Stevenson, 79th Highlanders, and was educated at Eton. He was commissioned Ensign in the 79th Cameron Highlanders on 7 March 1856, and served with the Regiment in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, being present at the siege and capture of Lucknow, and during the Rohilcund and Oude campaigns.

Holford transferred to the 10th Hussars on 26 August 1859, and was promoted Lieutenant on 23 August 1861. He died at Brighton on 25 April 1905.

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For the medals awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Stevenson, see Lot 98.