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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 514

(x) Sutlej 1845-46, for Aliwal, one clasp, Sobraon (Captn. A. Wheatley, 5th. Bengal Lt. Cavy.), officially renamed in India in small serif capitals, good very fine

Major-General Arthur Wheatley, born 1807, Commissioned Cornet, January 1824 and arrived in Calcutta aboard the Berwickshire, May 1824; posted to the 5th Bengal Light Cavalry; promoted Lieutenant, May 1825; Captain, December 1838; served during the First and Second Sikh Wars and wounded in action near Ramnuggur, 22.11.1848; Commanded the 5th Bengal Light Cavalry at the Battle of Chilianwala, 13.1.1849, and Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 3.3.1849); promoted Brevet Major, June 1849; Major, April 1850; Lieutenant Colonel, November 1853; and Brevet Colonel, November 1854; transferred to the 4th European Light Cavalry, 1858; retired with the rank of Major-General; died, September 1881.

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