Single Campaign Medals 424 Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Ensign H L Ramsbotham 37th Bgl. NI.) good very fine £300-£400
Henry Lindsay Ramsbotham was born in London on 18 December 1837, and baptised at St Botolphs, Bishopsgate. He was educated at Charterhouse, was nominated for the H.E.I.C. Army by John Masterman M.P. and recommended by his father Doctor Francis H. Ramsbotham, M.D., of Portman Square.
He was examined and passed as a Cadet on 25 June 1856, took the overland route to India to join at Alexandria on 5 August 1856. Gazetted Ensign on 4 September 1856, and promoted to Lieutenant on 30 April 1858. The Indian Mutiny medal roll gives his services thus: ‘Ensign H. L. Ramsbotham doing duty with late 37th Regiment Native Infantry and subsequently a Lieutenant in 47th Regiment Native Infantry. Present with the 37th Regiment Native Infantry when that regiment and other troops mutinied at Benares on 4th June 1857 and was driven out of the station by European troops.’ The roll is noted: ‘Received by Doctor Ramsbotham 1st January 1863.’
Lieutenant Ramsbotham died on 18 January 1862 at his family home, No. 8 Portman Square, of ‘Accidental inhalation of Chloroform used for a medical purpose.’
In April 1855, Lieutenant Ramsbotham’s mother Mary was arrested for stealing four cambric handkerchiefs, the property of Mr John Moule, a draper of 54, Baker Street. The trial and scandal which followed was widely reported in the national press of the time. Questions were asked as to why a lady in such a privileged position in society would be driven to steal. Eventually, having been on bail of £1,000, she was dismissed at trial after a split jury. Subsequently, whenever a lady of position was tried for a similar theft, this case was generally stated as part of the defence.
425
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lt. & At. J. S. D. Bolton. Sawunt. Warree. Lcl. Cps.) toned, good very fine £400-£500
John Shand Douglas Bolton was born on 20 August 1833. He was examined and passed for the H.E.I.C. Army on 26 March 1851, and sailed for India on the Ripon. Gazetted Ensign, 14 June 1851; Lieutenant, 23 November 1856; Captain, 14 June 1863; Major, 14 June 1871; Lieutenant-Colonel, 14 June 1877; Colonel, 1 July 1881.
In 1857 he served with the Persian Expeditionary Force as quartermaster and interpreter to the Light Battalion, and was present at the bombardment and capture of the forts of Mohumra, and the pursuit of the Persian Army (Medal with clasp). Commanded a field detachment under the orders of Brigadier-General Legrand Jacob, C.B., Political Commissioner in Kholapore and Sawunt Warree country in 1857-58, and present in the operations against the insurgent Sawunt Desaies in 1858. Served as Adjutant of the Sawunt Warree Local Corps from July 1857 to March 1859, and was actively employed during the considerable part of that time in hunting down mutineers and rebels; commanded the detail sent to the ghats West og Kholapore in December 1857 to check the would-be insurgents in that quarter; secured the ringleaders, and disarmed the inhabitants before they could rise en masse (Medal).
He was appointed Sub-Assistant Commissary General, 8 October 1867; transferred to the Unemployed Supernumerary List, 20 August 1891. Colonel Bolton died at Sidmouth, Devon, on 15 July 1892.
426
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lieut. G. W. Manson, Dt. Ct. Oude Mily. Pol.) extremely fine
£400-£500
George William Manson was born at Calcutta on 10 December 1830. Ensign, 11 December 1849; Lieutenant, 5 August 1854; Captain, 16 August 1865.
Lieutenant Manson was serving with the disaffected 34th Bengal Native Infantry at Barrackpore when on 29 March 1857, Sepoy Mangal Pandy attacked the Regimental Adjutant Lieutenant Baugh whilst on parade. Pandy was subsequently arrested, tried and hanged. The regiment was disbanded on 6 August 1857.
The following year he was appointed District Commandant of the Oudh Military Police. He was present at the engagement of Selimpore on 24 August 1858, and was mentioned in the despatch of Lieutenant Chamberlain who commanded the police. He joined Colonel Leith Hay’s column in December 1858. He was afterwards District Superintendent of Police at Mooltan and died there on 16 August 1865.
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