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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 62

(x) Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Mooltan, Goojerat (Drummer Dominick Byrne, 1st Bom. Fus.), clasps in this order, very fine

Dominick Byrne was born in 1824 at Dublin and enlisted in the East India Company Army in July 1843, joining the Bombay European Fusiliers as a Drummer. During the Punjab campaign, the regiment suffered 16 killed in action and a further 92 wounded, including 2 Drummers. He was married at Poonah in September 1851 and was discharged to a pension by 1858. Byrne returned to England in December 1867 and resided at Liverpool; sold together with copied research.

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£500