Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1887-89, Burma 1885-7, clasps affixed in this order, with top lugs removed (Lieut. Col. H. J. Woodward 2nd. Bn. R. Muns: Fuss.); together with the related miniature award (this with clasps Burma 1885-7 and Burma 1887-9 mounted in this order), edge nicks, good very fine £600-£800

Henry Jonathan Woodward was born in Clifton, Gloucestershire on 18 April 1844, one of eight children of Jonathan Henry Woodward of County Cavan, Ireland and Olivia Fanny Cunningham. Commissioned Ensign in the 104th Regiment of Foot on 10 October 1861, he was promoted Lieutenant on 17 November 1863, Captain on 8 February 1872, Major on 26 July 1861, and Lieutenant-Colonel
on 25 February 1885. He served with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers (as the 104th Regiment of Foot had been retitled), in India and Burma, and embarked in command of the right half of the Battalion for Rangoon on 28 September 1886. The Regimental History reports that ‘a column under Lieutenant-Colonel Woodward from Welaung, including 36 rifles from the Battalion, attacked and carried at the point of the bayonet a strong position at Myingyan; battalion casualties, 1 killed, 1 wounded.’

Woodward retired on half pay on 22 May 1889 and died at Felixstowe on 24 December 1906.

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