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Auction: 9024 - The Property of a Gentleman Orders, Decorations and Campaign Medals
Lot: 196

Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Delhi (Robt. Eastwell, 6th. Dragn. Gds.), brooch pin formerly attached to reverse of clasp, edge bruising, nearly very fine Estimate £ 220-260 1374 Private Robert Eastwell, born Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, 1836; enlisted in the 2nd Dragoon Guards, July 1854; transferred 6th Dragoon Guards, May 1855; served in the Crimea for ten months (awarded the Crimea Medal and Turkish Crimean Medal); served in India for 4 years and seven months throughout the Indian Mutiny, and present at the recapture of Delhi, 30.5-14.9.1857; discharged February 1866 after 11 years and 229 days with the Colours.

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