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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 88

Candahar Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Serjt. Wm. Jordon, H.M. 40th Regt.), with original steel clip and bar suspension, contemporary engraved naming, very fine

William Jordon was born in the parish of St. Michael’s, Coventry and enlisted in the 40th Foot in January 1827, aged 18 years. In his subsequent career of 20 years with the Colours, he served for 18 months in Van Dieman’s Land, 11 years in the East Indies and for three years in the Scinde and Afghanistan, in which latter theatre of operations he qualified for the above described Medal. He was, too, present at the battle of Maharajpoor in December 1843. Jordon was advanced to Corporal in March 1840 and to Sergeant in October 1841 and, but for the intervention of the Commander-in-Chief in July 1846 when he appeared before a District Court Martial, may well have been reduced to Private - instead, as a result of his previous good character and lengthy service, he was permitted to retain his stripes in lieu of stoppages. Jordon was medically discharged in January 1848 in consequence of ‘labouring under chronic rheumatism and hepatitis originating on foreign service caused by climate’; sold with copied research and muster extracts.

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£950