Single Campaign Medals


Frederick recalls that rumour of impending battle with the Neemuch mutineers was in the air, culminating in the order that all the Militia were to parade the next morning. He woke early before dawn to see his father taking his ‘chota hazri’ by candlelight and then marching out to the sound of bugles with his Brown Bess musket on his shoulder. His mother attempted to be cheerful but broke down after his father had left. He ran off to his uncle who had his gun on the ramparts. With all the intense excitement nobody paid any attention to him so he climbed the ramparts to watch the battle. All he could see from the corner of an embrasure were clouds of dust and smoke and the continuous roar of artillery. Two officers in dark uniforms came to the ramparts with telescopes and stood in the embrasure next to his. “My God,” said the elder, “why doesn't ______ go for them; their artillery will knock ours into a cocked hat.” Their excitement increased and there was much strong language, until a faint rattle of musketry could be heard between the gun reports. “At last,” swore the elder, ”but probably too late!” Frederick’s presence was noticed and he was told to run away home.


The whole of the Agra Fort residents were in the open square where he found his mother carrying his small brother and sobbing quietly. Nothing he said would console her. He therefore ran back to the ramparts where the big gun was being prepared. Tempers were running short and Ihewas again observed and sternly sent away with a flea in his ear. He went home disconsolately. Near to the gateway he saw clouds of dust and and running to it witnessed the arrival of our defeated army. First came the rabble of camp followers and then a line of Doolies with a wounded man in each; two or three of their faces remained photographed in his memory, especially one handsome, powerful young man, with his open chest covered in blood and many scattered black spots within a circle of ten inches (shot at close range by a charge of slugs). Another with side whiskers had a blackened mouth and sightless eyes and a burnt-up look. Both had drawn, set faces.


His general impression was one of dust, sweat and bloody bandages and above all ‘hurry.’ His friendly ‘Tommy’ spat and swore, “poor beggars, blown up with their own powder; cut and run you little ooloo (owl) or the Baghis will get you.” But he stood his ground and held on to his empty bayonet sheath.


The line of Doolies was long and followed by another disorderly rabble of dirty sweating men on foot. Many were wounded, slouched and limped with arms in slings and bloody bandages. Desperate for water his old ‘Tommy’ produced sympathetic strong language and water in buckets. Some troops then came along marching more or less in order, sweating but worn out. Afterwards there appeared a very disreputable crowd with open necks, blackened faces and such fierce looks that he thought these must be the rebels themselves. Panic stricken he shouted “Baghis” and ran for his life until he reached home and clasped his mother's knee, crying “the Baghis have come!” The servants screamed and ran but his mother and the weeping women kept their heads and smiled as all eyes were on a small company of blackened armed men that marched into the square and were dismissed. “There they are” he shouted as he recognised the authors of his panic but was dumbfounded to see one of the dirtiest villains come to their quarters and stagger into a chair, flinging his musket into a corner and calling for a drink! It was his father with his right hand a lump of bloody bandages. He had been shot in the thumb.


The siege of Agra was lifted on 2 October 1857, when a moveable column led by Brigadier Greathead fought and defeated the rebels close to Agra. Frederick describes how they left Agra Fort and travelled by ‘bullock bandy’ to Cawnpore, where they visited the site of the massacre and then travelled to Allahabad where the family would live for many years.


George William Bagley was to have 3 further children, Arthur Herbert, 1859; Eliza Catherine, 1860; and Sophie Theodora, 1862. His wife Sophie Theresa died on 31 October 1863, and on 25 April 1868, aged 46, he married Sophie Caroline née Williams. In 1864 G. W. Bagley wrote A Companion to the Civil Paymaster's manual North-West Provinces (IOR/V/27/301/405). In 1870 he is shown as Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner of paper money in Allahabad, eventually rising to become the Assistant Accountant General, N.W.P. He retired to Nagpur, where he died on 4 August 1907, aged 86. His son, Frederick Robert Bagley, became one of India's leading railway engineers working throughout the sub-continent. On retirement he returned to England and acted as a consultant to the British Government on all things railways.


Sold with comprehensive research including a compact disc containing a full scan of A Small Boy in the Indian Mutiny, from Blackwood's Magazine.


344


Charles Steward served as a Driver with E Troop, Royal Horse Artillery during the Indian Mutiny. Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Driver Chas. Steward, Rl. H. Art.) minor edge nicks, good very fine


345


£260-£300


Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Wm. Smith, 9th. Lancers) suspension re-affixed with reverse claw missing, otherwise very fine


£160-£200


Four Privates with the name ‘William Smith’ appear on the latest published transcript of the Indian Mutiny Medal roll having served with the 9th Lancers- one entitled to a no clasp medal; two entitled to a single clasp medal for Delhi (one of whom died at Delhi on 10 July 1857); and one, a Labourer from Roxbury, entitled to the above medal.


346 Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Gr. & Dr. Saml. Wilks, 12th Bn. R. Arty.) contact marks, good fine £240-£280


Provenance: Lieutenant-Colonel A. M. Macfarlane Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, July 2001. This battery was awarded the Honour Title “Strange’s” in recognition of its services against the rebels after the capture of Lucknow.


347


Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (J. Sparks, 1st. Batn. 5th. Fusrs.); together with a Northumberland Fusiliers Reward of Merit Medal, bronze, unnamed, suspensions re-affixed, both with traces of having been held in swivel mounts, therefore nearly very fine (2)


£240-£280


James Sparks served with the 1st Battalion, 5th Foot (Northumberland Fusiliers) in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, and was slightly wounded in the face at Oomreah on 2 December 1857.


The Northumberland Fusiliers Reward of Merit Medal was instituted on 10 March 1767, and received official recognition in 1832. It was discontinued in 1856, following the institution of the Distinguished Conduct Medal.


348 Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (W. Duckworth, 90th Lt. Infy.) remnants of lacquer, very fine £260-£300


Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, April 2003. William Duckworth died at Allahabad 7 May 1861.


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