Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (T. Chuck, 14th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Kuriheka Collection of British Medals.

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Ex Glendining’s April 1911.

Thomas Chuck was born at Asbenden, Hertfordshire, and enlisted into the 14th Foot at St Albans on 3 July 1812, aged twenty-one. He served a total of twenty years 147 days, including ‘Twelve Years Ninety Days in the East Indies; served upwards of Four Years in the Mediterranean, & was at the Storming & Capture of Bhurtpore’. He was discharged on 26 November 1832 in consequence of an ‘Impaired Constitution’. Sold with copy service papers.