Orders, Decorations and Medals

Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Goojerat (Captn. W. St. L. Mitchell, 13th Bengal N.I.) good very fine £250-300

William St John Leger Mitchell was born in Calcutta on 13 December 1807, and appointed Ensign in the Bengal Infantry in February 1826. He served against the insurgents at Punjabee, in Bundelcund in 1842, and throughout the Punjab Campaign in 1848-49, including the passage of the Chenab and battle of Goojerat. He retired in December 1861 with the rank of Hon. Major-General and died at Douglas, Isle of Man, on 18 December 1869.