A Collection of New Zealand War Medals

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1866 (724 Larry Setchell, 50th Qn’s Own Regt.) officially impressed naming, nearly very fine £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of New Zealand War Medals.

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Larry Setchell was born in Gamlingay Cambridgeshire, and attested for the 22nd Regiment at Westminster on 13 November 1860, aged 21, a groom by trade. He volunteered to the 50th Regiment, then serving at Ceylon, on 1 July 1863, and subsequently served with the regiment in New Zealand from 15 November 1863 to 8 October 1866. During this period he saw action at Mangapiko Creek, Hairini, and at Nukumaru. He accompanied the right wing of the regiment to Australia in October 1866, and served there until returning home to England in June 1869. He was discharged at Aldershot on 27 July 1882, and died aged just 51 at Maidstone in 1890.

Sold with copied discharge papers and a detailed biography of his military service.