Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sub-Conductor J. C. Stone, Ordnance Commissariat Department, later Horse Artillery

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Serjt. J. C. Stone. H. Arty.) short hyphen reverse, officially engraved naming as issued in India; Sutlej 1845-46, for Ferozeshuhur 1845, 1 clasp, Sobraon (Sub Conductor J: C: Stone Ord: Comt. Dept.) contemporary replacement retaining rods to both medals, edge bruising, minor contact marks, very fine (2) £1,000-£1,400

Dix Noonan Webb, November 2015.

James Charles Stone was born around 1802 and spent his early years living in the village of Magdalen, Essex. A butcher, he attested at London for the Army of the Honourable East India Company on 15 May 1820, and was initially posted to 1st Troop, 1st Brigade, Bengal Horse Artillery. He sailed to India aboard the convict transport Brampton, arriving 26 January 1821, and witnessed extensive service during the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824-26. Raised Sub Conductor on 1 March 1844, and then Conductor on 27 August 1846, Stone served at Ferozepore and Phillour, before appointment as Deputy Assistant Commissary at Saugor in 1859.

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