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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 29

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Relief of Lucknow (Lieut. Chas. I Wrench, 1st Bn. 23rd. R. W. Fusrs.), note middle initial, good very fine

Charles James Wrench was born in Salehurst, Sussex in 1835. Commissioned Ensign on 3 October 1855 and advanced Lieutenant on 29 May 1858, Lieutenant Utterton wrote to his sister Conny from the camp at Cawnpore on 15 December 1857. He had been to see Wrench and Graham in hospital:

'The former trying yesterday (7 December) to break a Sepoy musket he had picked up loaded by foolishly hitting it on the wheel of a hickory discharged it - and sent the ball through his stomach, coming out behind.'

Wrench died at Lucknow on 15 March 1861.


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Sold for
£600

Starting price
£270