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Auction: 8016 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 109

Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (Serjeant William Bleet. 43rd. Regt. 1850), rank partially corrected, with post-1855 swivel suspension, edge bruise, good very fine Estimate £ 120-150 523 Sergeant William Bleet, born Cambridge, January 1810; enlisted in the 43rd Foot, January 1826; Corporal, December 1830; Sergeant, November 1832; awarded Long Service & G.C. Medal, 1850; discharged, 10.5.1857, on the very day that the Sepoys first rose up at the start of the Indian Mutiny, after 23 years and 127 days with the Colours, having spent 10 years and 10 months in North America. In total 818 Officers and men of Sergeant Bleet´´s old Regiment, the 43rd Foot, served with the Regiment during the Indian Mutiny.

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