Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Gunr. Martin Mc.Donald, 1st. Bde. Bengl. H.Art.) lightly polished with scratches to obverse, nearly very fine £240-£280

Martin McDonald was born in Dublin, Ireland, around 1839. A clogger by trade, he attested at London for the Bengal Horse Artillery on 27 January 1857, and sailed to India aboard the Areta not long thereafter. McDonald served at Lucknow with Lieutenant J. D. Smith’s gun, but his military career came to a premature end when he died of sunstroke on 25 May 1858. A successful claim was later made by Cornelius McDonald, of Earlshill, County Tipperary, for his late son’s share of the Lucknow Prize Money: £1, 14 Shillings.

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