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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 21

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (W. H. Foster. M.D. Surgn. "Salamander") lightly polished very fine

W. H. Foster was appointed as Surgeon to Salamander in July 1850.

Salamander was recommissioned on 17 July 1850 under Commander John Ellman, RN, and proceeded to the East Indies, where she participated in the Second Anglo-Burmese War. She returned home in August 1854, and on 18 August command was taken over by Commander Benjamin Portland Priest, RN for a brief period of service in the Mediterranean before she arrived home again at Portsmouth, to pay off on 23 November 1854 into the Steam Reserve.

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£400

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£210