Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Nepaul (Lieut. Wm. Turner, 27th N.I.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, toned, good very fine £1,600-£2,000

Debenham’s, December 1900; Glendining’s, January 1902; Sotheby, June 1902; Dowell’s, February 1904; thereafter offered at Glendining’s on at least seven occasions up to November 1941.

Lieutenant William Turner escaped from Peacock Hill when it was overrun by Gurkhas, escaped a Gurkha patrol in the hills, wandered the jungle for two days and was taken in by a hill woman and her son who guided him back to Nahan. Cadet Bengal Establishment 1807; Ensign 3 December 1808, after Barasat Cadet College posted to 27th N.I.; Lieutenant, 16 December 1814; Captain, 1 May 1824 with 54th N.I. (late 2/27th); Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, then 2nd A.A.G.; Agent for family money and Paymaster of Native Pensioners at Barrackpore 1834-35; Major, 24 February 1835; retired to England, 26 January 1837; appointed Agent in England for Bengal Military Orphans Society; Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel, 28 November 1854. He died at Wimbledon on 2 February 1871 (Medals of British India, Robert Puddester, volume two, part III refers).