Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ashantee 1873-74, 1 clasp, Coomassie (1921 Serjt. P. Bateman, 42nd Highds. 1873-4) good very fine £400-450

Peter Bateman was born in Stirling and enlisted at Glasgow in April 1858. He received a gun shot wound in the chest when he was maliciously shot on 6th December 1876, by a Private of his regiment with a revolver, and was consequently discharged at Malta on 5th August 1878. Sold with copy discharge papers which give his regimental number as ‘1927’.