Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Gunner William Biggs 1st Troop Horse Brigade Bombay Arty.) correctly engraved in fine running script, fitted with replacement German silver clip and straight bar suspension, brooch marks to obverse and light rubbing to naming, otherwise nearly very fine £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals - The Property of a Gentleman.

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William Biggs was born in 1818, in Mitcham, Surrey, and enlisted in the Honourable East India Company Artillery in March 1838. He died on the line of march from Peshawar to Ferozepore on 14 December 1842, and was buried by an Artillery Officer at Mullyan.