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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 14

(x) India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (1733 Pte. J. Sargent. 3 Bn. Rif. Bde.), extremely fine

John Sargent was born at Colchester, Essex in 1839. There he enlisted into The Rifle Brigade for ten years' service on 10 October 1857. He received Levy Money totalling £3.3s.6d., including a Bounty of £2, and he gave his occupation as 'Sweep'. After a short period with the Depot Battalion at Colchester, Sargent was part of a draft sent to reinforce the 3rd Battalion in India following the Indian Mutiny. He arrived there via the steamer Indiana on 24 May 1858. In December 1863 he took part in Brevet Colonel A. F. Macdonell's expedition, which defeated Sultan Muhammad Khan's force of Mohmands and Bajauris at Shabkadar on the North-West Frontier (Medal & clasp). Sargent returned to England in 1868, re-enlisting at Winchester on 13 March for a further ten years' service. He was discharged to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley on 19 August 1872, his papers noting: 'Chronic Mania. Rather suddenly developed early in 1870 and attributable to effects of service in a tropical climate aggravated by moral causes'; sold with copied discharge papers.



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Sold for
£220