Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Chin-Lushai 1889-90 (16145. Sergt. H. Lay. R.E.) good very fine £200-£240

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2000.

Henry Lay attested for the Royal Engineers on 1 November 1887, aged 25, and embarked for India in H.M.T. Jumna on 8 March 1881. He served during the Chin Lushai expedition, being present at Fort White from 15 November 1889 to 30 April 1890, and committed suicide whilst temporarily insane at Bangalore on 20 May 1898.