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7 December 2022

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№ 316

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7 December 2022

Hammer Price:
£360

Punjab 1848-49, no clasp (Cornet T. C. B. St. George, 3rd Lt. Dragns.) plugged at 12 o’clock and suspension re-affixed, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine £200-£300

Entitled to clasp for ‘Goojerat’.

T. C. Belmore St George was commissioned as Cornet, by purchase, in the 3rd Light Dragoons on 29 December 1846, and served with that regiment in the Punjab campaign of 1848-49, and was present at the affair at Ramnuggur, the passage of the Chenab at Wuzeerabad on 1 December 1848, with the force under Sir Joseph Thackwell, the action of Sadoolapore, and battle of Goojerat (Medal and one clasp). He was appointed Lieutenant, by purchase, in the 80th Foot on 10 November 1848, and transferred as Captain to the 78th Highlanders on 2 February 1858. He retired by the sale of his commission in 1863.