The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late Major David Evans, T.D.

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Delhi (Lieut. Thos. B. Grierson, 1st Bn., 8th Regt.) good very fine £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late Major David Evans, T.D..

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The following is extracted from Soldiers of The Raj, by George William de Rhe-Philipe and Miles Irving: ‘Lieutenant Thomas Beattie Grierson, the only son of Major William Grierson, 15th Foot, grandson of Sir Robert Grierson, Bart., of Lag, Co. Dumfries, and great-grandson of Alexander, Earl of Carnwath. Entered H. M’s. Service on the 21st May 1847 as an Ensign in the 28th Foot. Proceeded to India and joined the regiment at Deesa in the autumn of the same year, and in November accompanied it to Bombay. On the 27th of the following month he was transferred to the 8th Foot, the left wing of which he joined in Bombay in the spring of 1848. In the following October he proceeded with the regiment to Karachi, and in December 1850 he accompanied it to Deesa, where he served with it for nearly three years. On the 15th October 1852 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. In December 1853 he went home on sick leave, and was absent from India until the spring of 1857, when he rejoined the regiment at Jullundur. He was at that station when the mutiny broke out there in June 1857, and in the same month he accompanied the regiment to Delhi, at the siege of which place he was actively engaged for two months, taking part in the repulse of the sorties of the 9th, 14th, 18th and 23rd July. Towards the end of August he was invalided to Ambala, at which place he died of dropsy, on the 4th September 1857.’

The following is extracted from Historical Record of The King’s Liverpool Regiment of Foot: ‘On the 14th July [1857], the enemy attacked the right of the position with numerous forces. On that day one hundred and thirty men of the regiment, under Captains A. C. Robertson and J. M. Bannatyne, were on piquet at the fortified post of the Subzee Mundee Serai, which covered the extreme right of the ridge. The Sammy House, another fortified post in the immediate vicinity, being seriously threatened by the enemy, forty men of the piquet, under Lieutenant Grierson were detached to its aid. Several attacks subsequently made on it by strong columns of rebel infantry, supported by field artillery and a heavy fire from the guns on the ramparts of the city, were repulsed...’