A Collection of Medals to The Royal Engineers

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (2nd Lieut. H. T. Rogers, Sappers & Miners) one or two minor edge bruises, very fine £180-220

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

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Henry Thomas Rogers was born in January 1830 and was commissioned into the Madras Engineers after attending Addiscombe between 1848-49. Arriving in India in the following year, he served in the Second Burma War with the 4th Madras Sappers and Miners at the capture of Rangoon in April 1852 and was advanced to 1st Lieutenant in August 1854. This was to be his only stint of active service but he went on to enjoy steady promotion and a number of senior appointments, latterly as a Lieutenant-Colonel and Principal of the Madras Civil Engineering College at Fort St. George. Rogers returned to the U.K. in 1880 and retired in the rank of Major-General in July 1886. He died at his residence at St. Leonards-on-Sea in November 1898.