Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Gunr. John Bailey. Horse Arty.) obverse cleaned and polished, attractive lustre to rim and reverse, nearly very fine and better £140-£180

John Bailey was born in Tiverton, Devon, in 1828. He attested at Southampton for the Madras Horse Artillery on 7 July 1849, and sailed to India aboard the Castle Eden not long thereafter. Sent to Burma with “C” Troop, the only Madras Horse Artillery present at Pegu, he survived terrible jungle terrain, monsoon rainfall, cholera, and stiff fighting against Burmese forces, especially around Rangoon and the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Bailey continued to serve in Madras during the Indian Mutiny, volunteering for the Royal Horse Artillery on 13 May 1861. He was discharged at his own request at Aldershot in 1868, his Army Service Record noting twice tried by Court Martial, thus ruling out a L.S.G.C. Medal.

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