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Auction: 6025 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 462

Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Lt. G. Adey. 4th Infy. Hd. Cont.), nearly extremely fine Estimate £ 280-320Lieutenant-Colonel Goodson Adey; commissioned Ensign 31st Madras Native Infantry, 1844; Lieutenant 1847; appointed Second in Command 4th Infantry Hyderabad Contingent, 29.8.1856; was present during the suppression of the insurrection in the Parlah Kimedy district (1856-57) and during the rebellion in Shorapore (1857-58), and was present at the repulse of the night attack and sortie on the camp of the Hyderabad Contingent in front of Shorapore on the 7th February, also at the affair of the 8th, and at the capture of the city (9.2.1858); appointed Acting Commandant 6th Infantry Hyderabad Contingent, 27.5.1859; Major 1864; Lieutenant-Colonel 1870.

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