Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Cabul 1842 (Pt. Edwd. De Lahunt XIII P.A.L.I.) Regimentally impressed naming, fitted with replacement clip and bar suspension, contact marks and minor edge bruising, very fine £360-£440

Edward Delahunt attested for the 13th Light Infantry at Leeds on 18 September 1839, and embarked for India in October of that year. He served with the Regiment in the First Afghan War, before returning to the U.K. in August 1845. His subsequent career with the Regiment was chequered at best: sentenced to 50 lashes and 168 days in prison for insulting behaviour in April 1849, he had only just been released when he was sentenced to a further 84 days in prison in October of that year for refusing to have his hair cut’! The following September he was sentenced to 50 lashes and a further 365 days in prison, before being released and discharged on 11 April 1851, his conduct officially recorded as ‘Bad’.

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