Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Lieutenant General C. S. Elliot, 1st Madras European Fusiliers
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Lieutt., 1st Madras Fusrs.); Indian Mutiny 1857-58, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Capt., 1st Madras Fusrs.) very fine and better (2)

Charles Scott Elliot served in the Burmese war in 1852-53 and was present at the destruction of the enemy’s stockade on the Rangoon river, the operations in the vicinity and the capture of Rangoon, and the capture of Pegu in November 1852. He was commended for his work at the capture of Pegu where he was one of the first two men into the Pagoda. He commanded the advanced guard of the force under Major General Godwin, which relieved the Pegu garrison in December 1852 (Mentioned in despatches, medal with clasp). Served in the suppression of the Bengal mutiny from December 1857 till his regiment returned to Madras, and was with Outram’s Corps of Observation at the Alumbagh, and also at the capture of Lucknow, and in the subsequent operations of the Oude Field Force under Sir Hope Grant, from June to December 1858 (Medal with clasp).