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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 310

(x) An exceptional Eurasian's First Sikh War and Indian Mutiny group of three awarded to Volunteer S. Doming, East India Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps, late 41st Native Infantry and Lahore Light Horse

Sutlej 1845-46, for Ferozeshuhur, 1 clasp, Sobraon (Drummer S. Donimy, 41st N.I.), note surname spelling; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Defence of Lucknow (S. Doming, Lahore Lt. Horse); Volunteer Force Long Service, V.R. (Vol. S. Doming, E.I. Ry. Volr. Rifle Corps), the first with contact wear, good fine, the second with slack suspension claw, otherwise very fine or better (3)

Simon Doming, a Eurasian, may have fought with another regiment at Ferozeshuhur, prior to his part in the battle of Sobraon as a Drummer in the 41st Native Infantry; Eurasians were often employed as musicians in native regiments.

The 41st Native Infantry mutinied at Sitapur on 3 June 1857, a bloody affair in which the participating mutineers butchered many women and children. Doming must have been lucky to escape with his life and, in common with those ranks of the 41st who remained loyal, made his way to Lucknow. Soon after his arrival at the Residency, he joined the newly raised Lahore Light Horse, in which capacity he was 'present throughout the siege of Lucknow, in the garrison commanded by Captain Boileau, 7th Light Cavalry' (India Office Roll L/MIL/5/77, refers).

Doming was still serving in the Lahore Light Horse at the time of his marriage at Dum Dum on 10 July 1860 and subsequently joined the East India Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps. He was awarded his Long Service Medal in 1897, by which time he must have in his 70s (The Gazette of India, 2 May 1896, refers); sold with copied research.

Please see Lot 651 for his son's awards.


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