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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 379

Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Lucknow (T. McHugh, 1st Battn. 5th Fusrs.), suspension claw tightened, minor edge nicks, therefore very fine

Private Thomas McHugh, enlisted 1st Battalion, 5th Foot, 1846; served during the Indian Mutiny, and was dangerously wounded at Oomreah, 2.12.1858; he was discharged, July 1860, due to 'penetrating gun shot wound of the thorax received in action, ball still lodged which renders him unfit to perform the active duties of a soldier' (service papers refer); admitted as an 'In Patient' to Chelsea Hospital, February 1882; died September 1895.

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