Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (Serjt Major T. Coughlan, 6th N.I.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, minor edge bruising, good very fine £800-£1,000

Montagu Collection, Glendining’s, November 1926; Captain J. Batty, M.M. Collection, Sotheby’s, October 1971; A. Wolfe Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2005.

Timothy Coughlan was born in the Parish of Ballyclogh, near Mallow, Co. Cork. He attested for unlimited service in the H.E.I.C. infantry, 19 January 1815, aged 18, and embarked for Bengal on the William Pitt, 27 March 1815, disembarking at Calcutta on 23 August. Coughlan was originally posted to the Bengal European Regiment with whom he served for the next five or six years, rising to the rank of Sergeant. In the muster roll of July 1824 he is shown as Quarter-Master Sergeant in the 6th Bengal Native Infantry, and in the list of July 1825, as Sergeant-Major in the same unit. Coughlan remained in the latter rank until invalided to Europe, 21 September 1837. He was admitted to pension on the Lord Clive Fund, 31 May 1838, and died in Ireland, 22 April 1856.

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