Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Indian Mutiny Medal awarded to Mr Frederick M. Hembrough, an Uncovenanted Civil Servant, who was present throughout the siege of Lucknow

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Defence of Lucknow (F. Hembrough.) fitted with a contemporary top silver riband buckle, nearly extremely fine £1,600-£2,000

Noble Numismatics, Melbourne, July 1995; Dix Noonan Webb, September 2016.

Frederick Mackenzie Hembrough, Uncovenanted Civil Service, was present throughout the siege of Lucknow with his wife and three children. Born in Westminster in 1823, he married Mary Anne Honiball in London in 1845 and they set sail for India that year. Hembrough began as a silk merchant in India but then trained as a Civil Engineer at Roorkee College, later teaching drawing and surveying at Agra College. Sometime after the birth of his fifth child in 1862, he took his family to Australia where he died in 1880, at Lower Gumble, New South Wales.