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Auction: 8010 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 21

Indian Mutiny 1857-58, two clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Asst. Apothy. J. Lockwood. Shannon. Naval. Brigade.), final letter ´o´ of surname officially corrected, extremely fine Estimate £ 1,000-1,200 Assistant Apothecary Joseph Henry Lockwood was one of a very small number of Subordinate Medical Officers seconded from the Bengal Army to the British and Indian Naval Brigades during the period of the Mutiny. After studying at the Medical College, Calcutta, Lockwood joined the Bengal Army as a Hospital Apprentice, 1853. When Captain William Peel, V.C., R.N., took his first party up river to Allahabad it included a "Surgeon and staff of Apothecaries, etc., from the Indian Army attached to the [Naval] Brigade". The Surgeon was Dr. Anthony Beale of the H.E.I.C.´´s Service, who later stated that Lockwood "had been attached to the Naval Brigade under my Medical charge from 18 August 1857", the latter date confirms his presence in Peel´´s first party, his rank then being described as "Acting Assistant Apothecary and Assistant Steward". Lockwood remained with Captain Peel´´s force until May 1858, after which he was returned to the Garrison at Allahabad with the confirmed rank of Assistant Apothecary. James Flanagan, an Assistant Surgeon of this first party from Shannon´´s Naval Brigade, reported in April 1858: "I have known Mr. Lockwood for the last nine months, while acting with me as Assistant Apothecary. His strict attention to his duties and gentlemanly bearing have elicited my warmest admiration as well as the officers and men of this Brigade, with whom he had come professionally in contact. I consider him a young man of considerable ability, and one who, if he followed in the course he has pursued while acting with me, will yet prove an ornament to his profession". Clasps are confirmed on recipient´´s entry on a Supplementary Indian Mutiny Medal Roll dated 11.3.1862 (India Officer: L/MIL/5/100, p. 37 refers). Moreover, in 1862 Flanagan had confirmed Lockwood´´s application for his Mutiny Medal and two clasps, when he stated, "He had been engaged in the Relief of Lucknow and the operations against the city from 2 to 16 March, including the battles of Kudgwah and Futtehgurh and second battle of Cawnpore."

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