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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 607

(x) Pair: Assistant Surgeon A. Wilson, 5th Bengal Cavalry

Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Chilianwala (Asst. Surgn. A. St. A. Wilson, M.D. 5th Bengal Cavy.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Asst. Surgn. A. St. A. Wilson. M.D. 4th Sikh Infy.), good very fine (2)

Aylmer St. Aubyn Wilson was born in June 1825 in the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, the son of Robert Aylmer M.D. Qualifying as a Doctor of Medicine at Edinburgh University in 1847, he was nominated an Assistant Surgeon for the Bengal Army by William Butterworth Bailey, one of the East India Company's Directors, in August 1848. He arrived at Calcutta on 9 October 1848, and was assigned to the 5th Bengal Cavalry at Ferozepore. Present at the Battle of Chilianwala on 13 January 1849 (clasp), he was then ordered to accompany the wounded to Ferozepore.

Wilson passed his examination in colloquial Hindustani on 13 June 1849. On 15 January 1853 he took medical charge of Artillery recruits at Dum Dum. He transferred to the 4th Sikh Infantry for the Second Burma War (clasp), and was given medical charge of the civil and jail establishments at Prome on 19 December 1853. He died of 'remittent fever' at Simla on 28 September 1859, and was buried there the following day; sold with copied service papers.


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Sold for
£580