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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 273

Three: Major J.R. Sladen, Bengal Artillery
Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Capt.&Bt. Majr. J.R. Sladen 1st. Compy. 1st. Battn. Artillery), with contemporary silver eye-let and straight bar suspension; Punjab 1848-49, one clasp, Goojerat (1st Lieut. J.R. Sladen, 2nd Tp. 2nd Bde. H. Arty.), edge bruise, light contact marks from Star; India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Northwest Frontier (Captn. J.R. Sladen. Punjab. Irregr. Force), therefore generally very fine, all with contemporary silver riband buckles and top riband bars (3)

Major J.R. Sladen, commissioned Second Lieutenant, Bengal Artillery, June 1842; advanced Brevet Captain, July 1845; served with the force under Sir Charles Napier against the Belochee Hill Tribes; served with Major Fordyce's Troop of Horse Artillery at Goojerat; served with the expedition under Brigadier N.B. Chamberain to the Meeranzaie Valley and Upper Koorum in 1856; also present at the operations in the Bozdar Hills, 6th-21st March 1857; during the latter he was in command of No.1 Punjab Light Field Battery, and is mentioned in Red with Two Blue Stripes, 'In the centre Wilde (Capt. 4th Punjab Infantry), who had not been content with a mere covering role, was also moving forward and supported by Lieut. J.R. Sladen's field guns had occupied successive ridges along the enemy front. Chamberlain now judged the situation was moving in his favour and ordered his central reserve of Major G. Gordon's 1st and 3rd Sikhs to up the Pass itself. Lieut. J.R. Sladen "plied the enemy with shell" and Captain R. Renny with a company of 3rd Sikhs carried the nearest ridge losing three men wounded'; Captain, September 1857; he commanded his Battery in the expedition against the Kabul Khel Waziris, December 1859.

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