Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 4 clasps, Delhi, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow, Central India (Store Lascar Luximon Rowjee.) locally impressed naming, unofficial rivets, a few marks, otherwise good very fine £1,400-£1,800

‘Most four-clasp medals were awarded to 3 Company, 1 Battalion Bengal Artillery (approximately 48 and additional 23 to gun lascars) with 17 Light Field Battery (approximately 62 to other ranks, including 2 Europeans).’ (British Battles & Medals refers). A ‘store lascar’ may well have been employed in a powder store or shell magazine with the artillery.