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Auction: 4020 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 306

Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Captn. J.H.S. Pierce. 24th Bombay N.I.), lacquered, nearly extremely fine, with silver riband buckle Estimate £ 340-380 Major General Joseph Hume Spry Pierce, (1829-1915), born in the Parish of Shirehampton, Gloucestershire; was educated by Dr. Day of Dighton Street, Bristol; Ensign attached 20th Bombay Native Infantry, 1845; posted 24th Bombay Native Infantry, 1846; Lieutenant 1849; Acting Line Adjutant at Sattara, April 1857; Captain in the same year; served with Colonel Scudamore's Flying Column and with Captain Meade's Field Detachment, Central India 1859 and was present at the capture of Tantia Topee; transferred Bombay Staff Corps 1866; advanced to Colonel 1876; retired Major-General 1877.

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