Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (Rough Rider T. Pape, 1st. Tp. 2nd. Bde. H. Arty.) minor edge bruising, toned, good very fine £300-£400

Thomas Pape was born around 1816 and attested at Liverpool for the Army of the Honourable East India Company on 8 May 1836. A grocer by trade, he sailed to Calcutta aboard the Repulse on 9 October 1836, and witnessed extensive service with the 1st Troop, 2nd Brigade, Bengal Horse Artillery, during the Second Sikh War. Present at Chilianwala and Goojerat, his Troop also encountered a sharp little engagement at Sadalapur where the Sikh cavalry were driven off by carefully judged bursts of gunfire. Promoted Rough Rider, and later, Farrier Sergeant, Pape’s medal was sent to him in India on 20 February 1852. He died intestate at Meean Meer on 21 August 1853, leaving a sum of 108 rupees, 13 annas.

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