A Collection of Medals to The Royal Engineers

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel B. Y. Reilly, Royal Engineers

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (Lieut., Sap. & Min.), short hyphen reverse, officially engraved naming; Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Captain, Sappers and Miners), original brass hook suspension; Sutlej 1845-46, for Sobraon 1846, no clasp (Major, Engineers) nearly extremely fine (3) £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to The Royal Engineers.

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Bradshaw York Reilly, who was born at Bath, Somerset in March 1807, completed his education at Addiscombe and was gazetted to the Bengal Engineers as an Ensign in June 1823. Advanced to Lieutenant in May 1824, he participated in the siege operations before Bhurtpoor in the Burma War of 1824-26 and was again in action, as a Captain, in the Gwalior Campaign of 1843. Reilly was appointed a Commandant of the Corps in April of the latter year and was advanced to Major in late 1844, afterwards having command of several companies at the Battle of Sobraon. Transferred to the Invalid Establishment as a Lieutenant-Colonel in November 1848, he died at Landaur in November 1853.