April 5, 2024
Historic & Original 1857 British Indian Mutiny Medal - Named 27th Regiment N.I.
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I have a 100% Positive Feedback - 100% Money Back Guarantee - see Shipping details at end -Good Luck and thank you for looking! - ORIGINAL 1857-58 Indian Mutiny Medal named - no clasp 27th Regiment N.I. *** Affiliated with Victoria Cross Action *** The Victoria Cross awarded to Sergeant-Major ( later Lieutenant ) Peter Gill, Ludhiana Regiment, Indian Army, has been sold at auction by the London auctioneers Spink on the 22nd November 2012. For the award of the Victoria Cross [ London Gazette, 24 August 1858 ], Benares, Indian Mutiny, 4 June 1857, Sergeant Major Peter Gill, Ludhiana Regiment. This Non-Commissioned Officer also conducted himself with gallantry at Benares, on the night of the 4th of June 1857. He volunteered, with Serjeant-Major Rosamond, of the 37th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, to bring in Captain Brown, Pension Paymaster, and his family, from a detached Bungalow to the Barracks, as above recorded, and saved the life of the Quartermaster-Sergeant of the 25th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, in the early part of the evening, by cutting off the head of the Sepoy who had just bayonetted him. Serjeant-Major Gill states, that on the same night he faced a Guard of 27 men, with only a Serjeant’s sword; and it is also represented that he twice saved the life of Major Barrett, 27th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
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