Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Lieut. W. D. Bloxsome, 1st. Bn. 23rd. R.W. Fus.) minor edge bruising, good very fine £600-£800

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2006.

William Dowdeswell Bloxsome was born in London on 3 February 1839. Commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 1 May 1855, he was promoted to Lieutenant on 30 September 1855. He served in Malta, October-December 1855, and in the Crimea, December 1855-July 1856, before entering Bengal- joining the army at Lucknow on 14 October 1857 he was present at the relief of Lucknow, the defeat of the Gwalior Contingent at Cawnpore and the capture of Lucknow. Lieutenant Bloxsome retired by the sale of his commission in 1858, and died in Victoria, Australia, in 1878.