Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Lt. Coll. W. M. N. Sturt, Commg. 67th Regt. N.I.) extremely fine £500-600

William Milner Neville Sturt was born at Chapra, Bengal, on 26 May 1800, and educated at Winchester. He entered the Bengal Army as an Ensign on 9 January 1820, and was posted to 1/7th Native Infantry which shortly afterwards became the 10th N.I.. He was appointed officiating Fort Adjutant at Fort William, November 1834; Brigade Major in Oudh, December 1836 to January 1838; Commandant 2nd Infantry, Oudh Auxiliary Force, January 1838 to May 1841; Assistant Secretary, Military Department, from April 1841; Deputy Secretary, 1846-48; Posted as Lieutenant-Colonel to 40th N.I. May 1848; to 62nd N.I. December 1849; to 51st N.I. October 1850; to 44th N.I. January 1851; to 14th N.I. August 1851; to 67th N.I. October 1851.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sturt commanded the 67th N.I. during the Second Burma War of 1852-53, during the operations against the rebel chief Myat Toon, 7th-24th March 1853, when he commanded the Left Wing of Sir J. Cheape’s force (Medal with clasp).