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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 501

The Rare Four Clasp Army of India Medal to Captain N. Shairp, Bengal Native Infantry, Who Served at Aide-de-Camp to General Lake During the Second Mahratta War 1803-05, And Was Wounded During the First Assault on Bhurtpore, 9.1.1805 Army of India 1799-1826, short hyphen reverse die type, four clasps, Allighur, Battle of Delhi, Laswarree, Capture of Deig (Lieut. N. Shairp, 12th. N.I.), officially impressed, Royal Mint, extremely fine Estimate £ 8,000-12,000 Captain Norman Shairp, of Houstoun, born Ayrhall, Scotland, October 1879; Commissioned Ensign, October 1799; promoted Lieutenant in the same month; arrived in India, September 1800, and posted to the 12th Bengal Native Infantry, April 1801. Served with the Regiment at the operations in Jumna Doab and Sasni, 1803, and in the Second Mahratta War as sometime Aide-de-Camp to General Lake, 1803-05, where he was present at the action at Koil; the capture of Allighur, 4.9.1803; the Battle of Delhi, 11.9.1803; the capture of Agra, 17.10.1803; and the Battle of Laswarree, 1.11.1803; the siege and capture of the fortress of Deig, 11-25.12.1804; and the first assault on Bhurtpore, 9.1.1805, in which last action he was wounded. Appointed and served as Adjutant and Quarter Master, 12th Bengal Native Infantry, 1805-07; Brigade Major at Berhampore, 1807-09; and Brigade Major at Presdy, 1809-10. Promoted Captain, October 1808, he last saw action at the Capture of Mauritius, 3.12.1810. Captain Shairp married Elizabeth Binning Campbell in Calcutta, March 1808, and had twelve children. Upon his retirement from the Army in May 1816 and subsequent return to Scotland he was appointed a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for Linlithgow. He died in April 1864. Approximately 23 four clasp Army of India medals awarded to Europeans, of which nine (three to Officers) are with this clasp combination.

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