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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 225

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Nagpore (Cornet B. Roxburgh, 6th L. Cav.), short-hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, traces of lacquer, good very fine

Provenance:
Spink, June 1987 and November 2012.

3 'Nagpore' clasps to the Officers of the 6th Light Cavalry out of a total of some 13 clasps issued to European Cavalrymen.

Bruce Roxburgh was born at Calcutta in December 1797, the son of Dr. William Roxburgh, Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. Young Roxburgh was sent back to England and was educated at Charterhouse and Addiscombe.

He was thence commissioned Cornet in October 1816 and posted to the 6th Light Cavalry, with whom he served during the Pindari and Third Mahratta War, 1817-19, as part of Brigadier-General Doveton's force, and took part in the advance and decisive action at Nagpore on 16 December 1817, when they drove out the Bhonsla of Berar's force (Medal & clasp). Their last Charge - when they rode into and routed the enemy horse and elephant cavalry - was immortalised in a print by Denis Dighton after Captain R. Woolf's sketches of that famous event.

Roxburgh was duly promoted Lieutenant in September 1818 and appointed Acting Instructor and Quartermaster in November 1824. Promoted Captain in December 1829 he retired in September 1832 and died at Torquay, Devon, in June 1861.

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Sold for
£2,700

Starting price
£1600