Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Africa 1834-53 (T. Bingham. 45th. Regt.) edge bruising, good very fine £300-400

Thomas Bingham was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, in 1816 and attested for the 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot at York on 10 October 1837. He served with the Regiment in South Africa for 14 years and 10 months, and saw action in both the Second and Third Kaffir Wars, 1846-47 and 1850-53. He was discharged medically unfit on 1 March 1858, suffering from rheumatism brought on by field service, after 20 Years and 86 days’ service. Awarded a pension, he forfeited this after he was convicted of feloniously assaulting his wife in 1859, and he died in 1866.