Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Sapper Wm. Varley. Royal Engrs.) minor edge nicks, good very fine £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

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William Varley was born in Manchester in 1836 and attested for the Royal Sappers and Miners at Yately, Hampshire, on 13 March 1856. He served with the 4th Company, Royal Engineers in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, and was discharged, medically unfit, at Chatham on 13 September 1864, after 8 years and 166 days’ service, of which 1 year and 300 days were spent in Mauritius, and 2 years and 210 days were spent soldiering in India.