Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Captain W. M. Leckie. 13 Regt. Bo. N.I.) contemporarily engraved naming, with top silver riband buckle, nearly extremely fine £100-£140

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2006 (when sold alongside the recipient’s full size medal).

William Michael Leckie was born in 1820, and was commissioned into the Bombay Native Infantry. He served during the Great Sepoy Mutiny under Sir Hugh Rose as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General on the 2nd Brigade Staff during the Central India campaign, and was present at the capture of Jhansi. For his services during the Indian Mutiny he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 17 July 1858 and 17 September 1858), and was promoted to the Brevet of Major. He retired as a Colonel in the Bombay Native Infantry in July 1868, and died in Southsea, Hampshire, in 1909.