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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1258

The Important Punniar and Sutlej Pair to Lieutenant-Colonel P.J. Petit, 50th Foot, Who Was Dangerously Wounded at Sobraon, the ´Indian Waterloo´, and Had Three Horses Shot From Under Him Punniar Star 1843 (Major P.J. Petit 50th. Queen´s Own Regt.), with original brass hook suspension and contemporary riband bar; Sutlej for Moodkee 1845-46, three clasps, Ferozeshuhur, Aliwal, Sobraon (Major P: J: Petit 50th. Regt.), light pitting from Star, otherwise very fine (2) Estimate £ 1,600-1,800 Lieutenant-Colonel Peter John Petit, C.B., (1806-52), Commissioned Ensign, May 1825; Promoted Lieutenant, February 1828; Captain, May 1833; Major, September 1842; Commanded the 50th (Queen´s Own) Foot at the Battle of Punnair, and had his horse shot from under him; Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel, April 1844; Commanded the Regiment at the Battles of Moodkee, Ferozeshuhur ("Die hard, Queen´s Own"), where he had two horses shot from under him, and at Sobraon, where he was dangerously wounded; he was also present at Aliwal; Appointed C.B. 1846; Lieutenant-Colonel, September 1848. Lieutenant-Colonel Petit was the Great Great Grandson of Brigadier General Louis Petit, who served in the French Army of Louis XIV, and after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, fled France, and joined William of Orange in the Netherlands. He came over to England with William in the Glorious Revolution, fought at the Battle of the Boyne, 1690, and subsequently was Chief Engineer to the Scotch train, then Commander in Chief and Governor of Minorca. Because of his ancestor´s links, Lieutenant-Colonel Petit served, from 1849, as a Director of the French Hospital, Old Street, St Luke´s Hospice, a home for aged persons in reduced circumstances who could prove descent from French Protestant refugees.

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