Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lt. & Adjt. J. M. Evans, 7th. Bengal N.I.) good very fine £240-£280

John Mitchell Evans was appointed Ensign in the Indian Army on 13 December 1845. Advanced Lieutenant 10 April 1852, he served with the Arracan Battalion and is noted as Second in Command at Kyouk Phyoo on 2 November 1857. A port city in modern-day Burma, Kyouk Phyoo held considerable strategic value, firstly as a stopping-off point for trade between Calcutta and Hong Kong, and secondly as the location of the Barangah Oil Company’s kerosene refinery.

Promoted Captain in the 6th European Regiment on 22 January 1859, Evans served the remainder of his military career with the Bengal Staff Corps before returning home to Kent upon retirement. According to the Kent & Sussex Courier, he died on 28 January 1909, with his last address recorded as Pen-y-brin, Woodbury-park Road, Tunbridge Wells.