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INDIAN MUTINY MEDAL 1857-58 : 8TH. REGIMENT: KILLED IN ACTION AT THE STORMING OF DELHI :
Bar, 'Delhi', officially impressed naming - JOSH. MITTON, 1st.Bn., 8th. Regt. (King's Liverpool Regiment) : (For the assault on Delhi on 14 September 1857, "there were four columns of attack: Brigadier-General Nicholson commanded the first; Brigadier-General Jones the second; Brigadier Campbell the third; and Major Reid the fourth : Brigadier William Jones with the second Column, composed of 8th. Regiment (250 men); 2nd. European Bengal Fusiliers (250 men), and 4th. Sikh Regiment of Infantry (350 men) ; (the storming party consisted of seventy-five men of these corps, and the assault was led by Brevet-Major R.S. Baynes, of the 8th. Regiment, who was dangerously wounded), covered by the fire of the skirmishers of the 60th.Rifles, advanced through the breach in the bastion at the Water Gate, and gained possession of the walls as far as the Cabool Gate, without meeting any check. Upon reaching the latter the troops turned one of the guns immediately on the Lahore Gate, from which the foe was firing grape and shot." During this action the 8th. Regiment had eighteen men killed, with a further thirty-two men wounded of whom several subsequently died of their wounds : The recipient Joseph Mitton was among those killed in action during the assault : There is no other man of this name on the Medal Roll of the 8th.Regiment.) : Sold with verification, copy Casualty Roll and related research: Some slight edge bruising but not affecting the naming Scarce VF and better - £1045