SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 268 SUTLEJ 1845-46, for Sobraon 1846, no clasp (Serjt. Wm. Morley 10th Regt.) good very fine £400-500
William Morley was born at Dymchurch, Kent, and enlisted into the 10th Foot in Middlesex on 17 December 1830, aged 19 years 7 months, a servant by trade. He was promoted to Corporal in January 1832 and to Sergeant in November 1834. Reduced to Private in February 1838 for some misdemeanour, he regained the ranks of Corporal in August 1840 and Sergeant in February 1841. The 10th Foot arrived in India in August/September 1842 at Calcutta, where they remained until November 1844 when they moved to Meerut. In December 1845 the regiment marched from Meerut to join Gough’s Army of the Sutlej in time to take part in the final battle of the Sikh War at Sobraon on 10 February 1846. In this action Sergeant William Morley received a severe gunshot wound which necessitated the amputation of his right leg. As a result of his injury he was discharged from the army at Chatham on 8 June 1847 in the rank of Colour Sergeant. He was awarded a pension of 1s 9d per day.
Sold with copied discharge papers and other research. 269 270
NEW ZEALAND 1845-66, reverse dated 1861 to 1866 (1520. John Dowd, 2nd Bn. 14th Regt.) officially impressed naming, obverse polished, therefore nearly very fine
£280-320 NEW ZEALAND 1845-66, reverse dated 1862 to 1866 (2933 Jas. Bateman, 57th Regt.) nearly extremely fine £360-400
James Bateman was born in 1836 and enlisted into the 57th Foot at Cork on 11 August 1854, aged 17 years 10 months, a labourer by trade. He served in the Crimea at the siege and capture of Sebastopol (Medal with clasp). Following service in India from June 1858 to November 1860, the 57th arrived at New Plymouth, New Zealand, in January 1861, where they served until the various campaigns ceased in 1866. Bateman arrived back in England in August 1867 and, having been confined, imprisoned or forfeited pay on a number of occasions during his career, was discharged ‘as a worthless character’ at Devonport on 28 April 1869.
Sold with copied medal roll extracts and full muster details. 271 272
Sold with a copy of Gordon Everson’s article Gate Pah and the 43rd, in which action George Cripps is confirmed as having taken part. NEW ZEALAND 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1866 (328. George Cripps. 43rd Lt. Inftry.) edge bruising and contact
marks, otherwise very fine £500-600
NEW ZEALAND 1845-66, reverse dated 1864 to 1866 (Ensign & Lieut. Ar. Longley, 43rd Lt. Infy.) ‘o’ of surname officially corrected over ‘a’, good very fine
£800-1000
Arthur Longley was born at Bishopton, Perthshire, on 17 February 1841; Ensign 43rd Light Infantry, 16 January 1863; Lieutenant, 30 April 1864; Captain, 30 November 1871; Ensign 83rd Regiment, 19 December 1862; Paymaster Hon. Captain, Army Pay Department, attached 85th Light Infantry, 9 August 1878; retired as a Lieutenant-Colonel 1899.
Served in New Zealand, 4 March 1864 to 8 March 1866: Maketu, Kariare, Kanium, Ngakuni Rum, Waitkookow, Peri, Peringauki, Taurunga; served in the expedition in the province of Taranaki destroying man Pas and fortified villages (Medal). Served in Afghanistan 1879-80, with the Kurrum Division in the Zainmusht expedition (Medal).
Sold with service details and copied photograph from a regimental album.
x273 274
NEW ZEALAND 1845-66, reverse undated (3636. Wm. Barkley. 68th Foot.) very fine
£360-400
William Vickers was wounded before Mooltan on 2 January 1849. PUNJAB 1848-49, 1 clasp, Mooltan (Wm. Vickers, 32nd Foot.) suspension post re-fixed, contact marks, nearly very fine
275 PUNJAB 1848-49, 1 clasp, Mooltan (W. Cowie, 1st Bn. 60th R. Rifles.) good very fine
£400-460
£400-460
William Cowie enlisted into the 60th Rifles at Aberdeen on 30 March 1842, aged 18. Posted to the 1st Battalion, he embarked for India in July 1845, arriving in Bombay on 20 December after an enforced one month stop at Mauritius for ship repairs. He subsequently took part in the siege of Mooltan which commenced in December 1848 and was injured during the final assault on the citadel of Mooltan on 22 January 1849. Thereafter he was invalided to the Rifles Depot at Karachi and subsequently died en-route to rejoin the regiment on 15 February 1850, at Ahmedpoor.
Sold with copied medal roll extract, full muster details and a detailed service history compiled by Irvin Mortenson. 276
PUNJAB 1848-49, 1 clasp, Mooltan (M. Butcher, 1st Bn. 60th R. Rifles.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine
£400-460
Moses Butcher was born in the Parish of Sutton, Cambridge, and attested at Huntingdon for the 28th Foot on 15 January 1844, aged 18. He served in the ‘East Indies, Lower & Upper Scinde & the Punjaub from 3rd November 1844 to 30 September 1850.’ He volunteered to the 1/60th on 1 December 1847 and served with that regiment at the siege and capture of Mooltan, 27 December 1848 to 22 January 1849. He was discharged on 30 September 1850, ‘being found unfit for further service’. Sold with copied discharge papers.
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