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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 600

(x) Pair: Lieutenant F. V. R. Jervis, 56th Bengal Native Infantry, severely wounded at the Battle of Chilianwala on 13 January 1849

Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Ensign F. V. R. Jervis, 56th Regt. Native Infantry), fitted with replacement screw-back and straight bar suspension; Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Chilianwala (Lieut. F. V. R. Jervis, 56th Bengal N.I.), the first good very fine, the second pitted by Star, thus nearly very fine (2)

Felix Richard Vincent Jervis was born at Benares, India in 1826, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Jervis, 5th Bengal Native Infantry (who died at sea en route to England in 1849). Educated at Addiscombe, he entered the 56th Bengal Native Infantry as an Ensign on 10 December 1842, sailing for India aboard the Stag.

Active during the 1843-44 Gwalior Campaign, the Regiment held the left flank of Sir Hugh Gough's army at the Battle of Maharajpoor on 29 December 1843. Intense hand-to-hand fighting was required to clear the Mahrattan positions, British casualties totalling 797 killed, wounded or missing. During the 1848-49 Punjab campaign, Jervis was present at Sadoolapoor on 3 December 1848, a minor action which enabled Gough's rapid march to Lahore. Jervis was severely wounded at the Battle of Chilianwala on 13 January (London Gazette, 3 March 1849).

Promoted to Captain in 1854, Jervis commanded a detachment of three companies during the Santhal Rebellion of 1855-56, a native tribal rebellion in present-day Jharkhand. He advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel on 10 December 1868, and was assigned to the Bengal Staff Corps. Placed on medical leave, he embarked home to England but, like his father, he died en route, succumbing to illness at Malta on 20 June 1873; sold with copied discharge papers and London Gazette entries.


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