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INDIAN MUTINY 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Tp. Sgt. Major. Josh. Harrison, 8th Hussars.) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine
£600-800
Joseph Harrison was born in the Parish of St Michael’s Without, Dublin, and enlisted there for the 8th Hussars on 27 January 1841, a gardener by trade, aged 18 years. He embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. Wilson Kennedy on 15 May 1854. He was promoted to Corporal on 27 November 1854, served with Lord Raglan’s Escort Troop during 1855, and was promoted to Sergeant on 27 August 1854. Entitled to the Crimean medal with four clasps, for Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann and Sebastopol, there is no evidence to the contrary that he took part in the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. He is not recorded as having attended the Balaklava Commemoration Society in 1877 or 1879, nor any of the veterans’ functions. His status can therefore be taken as that of a ‘possible charger’.
Harrison embarked for India from Cork on board the S.S. Great Britain on 8 October 1857. He served in Central India and was present at Kotah and Gwalior, being promoted to Troop Sergeant Major on 31 August 1858. He was discharged from the West Cavalry Barracks, Aldershot, on 18 August 1865, at his own request after 24 years 202 days service. His conduct was stated to be very good despite his name appearing nineteen times in the Defaulters book and having been tried twice by Court Martial and imprisoned on each occasion. Having married Anne Hinnears at Nusserabad on 13 June 1860, he stated his intended place of residence to be Blackwell Gardens, Halifax, Yorkshire.
An engraved four-clasp Crimea medal named ‘Sgt. Joseph Harrison, 8th Hussars’ was sold at the Gaitskill Collection sale at Glendining’s on 23 May 1911, and again at Glendining’s on 22 March 1977, as part of lot 117. Another engraved four-clasp medal named ‘Sgt. Jos. Harrison. 8. Hussars.’ was sold at Christie’s on 18 November 1986. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research including a letter from the late James Boys.
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M. Williams served with the 14th Light Dragoons in India during operations against the Mutineers at Jhansi, Calpee, and Gwalior. INDIANMUTINY 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (M, Williams. 14th. Lgt. Drgns.) pawn broker’s mark to obverse field, good
very fine £300-400
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INDIAN MUTINY 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Sapper Hamphill Ramsey, Royal Engrs.) good very fine
£360-420
Hamphill Ramsey was born in the Parish of Antrim, County Antrim, and attested for the Royal Engineers at Glasgow on 11 December 1849, aged 22 years 5 months. He was discharged at Chatham on 14 April 1861, having ‘impaired use of left leg the result of gunshot wound in India. He served 11 years 49 days and was ‘present at the siege and capture of Chandharee, siege and capture of Jhansee and action of the Betwa during the Indian Mutiny in 1858 for which he is entitled to the silver medal and clasp for Central India.’
His Medical Report states: ‘This man was wounded in the calf of the left leg by a musket ball at Jhansee, Bengal, on 3rd April 1858. The ball passed through without injuring the bone. The wound has been healed a long time and though there is no marking the limb swells greatly. He has been in hospital some time and cannot use the leg.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.
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INDIAN MUTINY 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (J. Atkins, 86th Regt.) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, very fine £240-280
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INDIAN MUTINY 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (R. Kirk, 86th. Regt.) minor edge bruise, good very fine
£260-300
Robert Kirk was born in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, in 1823, and attested for the 86th Regiment of Foot at Wokingham, Berkshire, on 27 February 1843. He served with the Regiment in India for 15 years, 9 months, and saw service during the Mutiny. He was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £5, on 1 April 1864, and was discharged on 5 July of that year, after 21 years’ and 129 days’ service.
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