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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 56

Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (T. Murray, 24th. Foot.), light contact marks, nearly very fine and better

The 24th Foot suffered 590 killed or wounded during the Battle of Chilianwala, representing a casualty rate of over 50%. Trying to attack Sikh guns head-on and through thick scrub, they lost cohension and received terrible injuries from grapeshot. Amid desperate and ferocious resistance, the 24th were driven back, the men returning to their start lines in small parties; sold with copied roll entry confirming clasps.

Provenance: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 21 June 1906.

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Sold for
£450