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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 215

x Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Delhi (Lieut. R. Aislabie, 3rd Bn. Bengal Art.), good very fine, with photographic image of recipient in uniform Estimate £ 500-550 Major-General Rawson Aislabie (1835-90), born Richmond, Buckinghamshire; educated at Chigwell Grammar School; commissioned Second Lieutenant Bengal Artillery, 1854, and was posted to the 3rd Battalion; at the time of the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny, throughout which he served, he was in Delhi; on the 11th May 1857 he had command of two guns when he was ordered to join Major F.S. Paterson at the Main Guard in Delhi; after the blowing up of the Magazine, he was ordered to bring his two guns back to the Ridge; on approaching the Ridge he was met by a detachment of the 38th Bengal N.I. who were stationed on the Ridge; driving off Aislabie and his European sergeant, the mutinous sepoys convinced the native gunners to return to Delhi with them, taking the guns with them despite Aislaibie´´s best attempts to retrieve them; Lieutenant September 1857; took part in all the operations around Delhi, including the action on the Hindun River, 30-31st May, and the action at Badli-ki-Serai, 8th June; at the assault on Delhi, September 1857, he accompanied Brigadier J. Nicholson´´s Column, and after the capture of the city he formed part of the Column despatched to reduce the surrounding countryside; advanced Lieutenant-Colonel, 1878; appointed Officer Commanding Auxiliary Artillery, Lancashire Division, R.G.A., Northern Command, 1881; retired Major-General 1885. Provenance: Sotheby February 1985

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