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Auction: 9024 - The Property of a Gentleman Orders, Decorations and Campaign Medals
Lot: 129

Sutlej 1845-46, for Moodkee, three clasps, Ferozeshuhur, Aliwal, Sobraon (William Ainger 31st. Regt.), heavy edge bruising, good fine Estimate £ 400-500 1686 Private William Ainger, born Stepney, London; joined 31st Foot, 1842, wounded at the Battle of Sobraon, the ´´Indian Waterloo´´, 10.2.1846, one of 154 casualties suffered by the 31st Foot for this action; his service papers give him as having suffered ´´a gun shot wound in the left foot and a slight wound in the right arm´´; discharged due to wounds, 1847.

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