Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Sutlej 1845-46, for Aliwal 1846, no clasp (Hy. Lawton, 16th Lancers), original riband, edge bruises, otherwise very fine £500-600

Henry Lawton, who was born in Pwelly, Caernarvon, enlisted in the 16th Lancers in London in September 1837. Embarked for India in 1840, he was killed in action at the battle of Aliwal on 28 January 1846; his effects were valued at £8 10s 6d and his name appears on the regimental memorial in Canterbury Cathedral; see The Sixteenth Lancers and British Soldiering in India 1822-1846, by John H. Rumsby.