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

Pair: 1st Class Engineer T. Knox, Indian Navy

Punjab 1848-49 (2nd Class Engr., Ind. Flot.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (1st Cl. Engineer, “Moozuffer”), the first with corrected initial, edge bruising otherwise good very fine or better and rare (2) £1200-1500

Approximately 130 no-clasp Punjab 1848-49 Medals were issued to European officers and men of the Indus Flotilla (see published roll by Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris, R.N., in Naval Medals 1793-1856).

Thomas Knox, a native of Glasgow, entered the Indian Navy as a 3rd Class Engineer in January 1845. Arriving in India later that year, he was advanced to 2nd Class Engineer during the course of his services aboard the steam tender Napier in the Punjab operations of 1848-49, and to 1st Class Engineer in December 1851 at the time of his participation in the Pegu operations aboard the Moozuffer. Knox died at Bombay in February 1854.

A portrait photograph of the recipient is illustrated alongside Lot 369