Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Wm. Baldwin, 7th. Husrs.) minor edge bruising, very fine £400-£500

Spink, June 1975.

William Baldwin was born in Lewes, Sussex, in 1832 and attested for the 10th Hussars in London on 24 July 1854. He served with the Regiment in the Crimea (Medal with clasp Sebastopol), before transferring to the 7th Hussars on 131 March 1857. He saw further service in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, and was severely wounded at Nawabgunge on 13 June 1858, on which date the 7th Hussars suffered 22 casualties; in Baldwin’s case he was wounded to his left hand by a sepoy’s tulwar, which resulted in two of his fingers being severed. He was discharged on account of his wounds on 11 September 1860, ‘unfit for duties of a Cavalry soldier’, and was granted a pension.

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