Orders, Decorations and Medals

Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Mooltan (2nd Lieut. H. W. Gulliver, 2nd Cy. Sappers) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine £350-450

Henry William Gulliver was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers on 12 December 1845. He served during the Punjab Campaign of 1848-49 and was present throughout the operations before Mooltan, including the first siege storming of the intrenched positions on the 9th and 12th September 1848, and storm of the city, where he was severely wounded in the trenches on the 18th January 1849 (Medal with clasp). As a subaltern he raised the 24th Punjab Pioneers and commanded them at the sieges of Delhi and Lucknow, and served also throughout the campaign of 1858-59 in Oudh. He was brought to the notice of the Commander-in-Chief in Colonel Baird Smith’s Despatch of 5 November 1857, and also in the Despatch of Sir R. Napier of 5 April 1858 (Medal with two clasps; promoted to Brevet-Majority 28 August 1858). He became Lieutenant Colonel in March 1869; Colonel in March 1874; Major General in December 1878, and Lieutenant General in September 1882.