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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 15

(x) India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Umbeyla (1085 S Turner H.Ms. 101st Regt.), edge bruising, thus very fine

Stephen Turner was born at Sheffield in 1839, gaining civilian employment as a cutler. He enlisted into the 101st Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) at York on 15 March 1859, and saw service in India during General Chamberlain's 1863 Umbeyla Expedition (Medal & clasp). On 30 October that year, Chamberlain's column faced a 15,000-strong horde of Pashtuns at Crag Picquet. The 101st Foot saw particularly heavy fighting, and overall the British suffered 1,000 casualties. Returning to England, Turner was discharged at Netley Hospital on 1 June 1869, his medical examination noting: 'Unfit for Service - Heart's action easily excited.' Though he once entered the Regimental Defaulter's Book, his conduct was described as 'very good'; sold with copied discharge papers.

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£160