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Auction: 13002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 248

(x) Pair: Private W. Welsh, 7th Hussars
Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Lucknow (Wm. Walsh [sic], 7th. Husrs.); Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (1491 Pte. W Welsh 7th. Hussrs.), good very fine, mounted court style for display purposes (2)

1491 Private William Welsh, born Cork, Ireland, 1836; enlisted in the 7th Hussars, August 1855; served with the Regiment during the Indian Mutiny (the latest published transcript of the medal roll erroneously gives Welsh as being entitled to a no clasp medal; the recipient's service papers confirm the Lucknow clasp); awarded L.S. & G.C., May 1877; discharged, May 1877, after 21 years and 293 days with the Colours, of which 12 years and 11 months were spent in India.

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