Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (Farrier J. Yeomans. 3rd. Troop. 2nd. Bde. H.Arty.) nearly very fine £300-£400

John Yeomans was born near Margate, Kent, around 1823. A butcher, he attested at Westminster for the Army of the Honourable East India Company on 16 October 1845, leaving for India aboard the Royal Alice not long thereafter. Appointed Farrier in the 3/2nd Bengal Horse Artillery, Yeomans witnessed extensive action during the Punjab Campaign, including the lesser-known engagement at Sadalapur on 3 December 1848. At Chilianwala, casualties amongst the Horse Artillery numbered 50 men, whilst disease and accidents involving heavy limbers and hostile terrain accounted for many more.

Discharged by purchase on 30 August 1850, Yeomans returned to England and set up home with a young wife in Winchester. The couple later worked as publicans of the Winton Ale House located at 60, Middlebrook Street, before Yeomans died of hepatitis exhaustion on 5 May 1877.

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