Special Collections

Sold between 9 December & 18 September 1998

2 parts

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A Collection of Medals to the 90th Foot, Scottish Rifles and Cameronians

Lot

№ 608

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9 December 1999

Hammer Price:
£2,300

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Defence of Lucknow (Lieut. A. A. Moultrie, 90th Lt. Inf.) extremely fine £1500-1800

Lieutenant Arthur Austen Moultrie was mortally wounded on the 25th September 1857, as Havelock’s Relief Force finally fought their way into the beseiged garrison at Lucknow. He was the only officer of the 90th to be killed on this historic day.