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INDIAN MUTINY MEDAL 1857-58 : 90TH. LIGHT INFANTRY
Bars, 'Defence of Lucknow', 'Lucknow', officially impressed naming - A. HODGES, 90th. Lt. Infy. (Light Infantry) : (ALFRED HODGES - Born in the Parish of Bethnal Green, London, a shoemaker by trade when on 20 December 1854 at Westminster, London he attested for 90th.Light Infantry : He served with the Regiment in the Crimea and was awarded the British Crimea Medal with bar 'Sebastopol' and the Turkish Crimea Medal : The Regiment returned to England in 1856 and embarked for India in February 1857 : In March 1857 seven companies of Bengal Native Infantry, mutinied at Barrackpore, news of which rapidly spread and at Meerut on 10 May 1857 the Sepoys of further Indian Regiments also mutied. Thus the Indian Mutiny had begaun. Early in July 1857 the 90th.Light Infantry was deployed to form part of Brigadier-General Sir Henry Havelock's Force of about 1500 men for the relief of the beseiged garrison at Lucknow and moved up from Allahabad to Cawnpore, along the way defeating mutineer forces at the village of Aeng and the bridge over the Pandoo Nuddee. The Relief Column entered Cawnpore on 17 July 1857 only to discover that the captured British women and children had all been butchered : With his small force weakened by losses through enemy action, and disease, Havelock was compelled to await further reinforcements before continuing his advance on Lucknow. These arrived under the command of Major-General Sir James Outram and increased his command to 3,000 men and the advance was resumed. : On 24 September 1857 whilst the column was still some three miles from the Redency, the enemy's cavalry, one thousand strong made a sudden irruption upon the baggage massed at the rear, the men of the 90th.Light Infantry forming the baggage guard gallantly dispersed the whole body, but not without losing some brave Officers and men. On 30 September 1857, Havelock's column broke through to the Lucknow garrison, but the loss was heavy with 535 men killed or wounded the column was too weakened to withdraw and thus remained besieged within Lucknow with the original garrison.) : Sold with verification, copy Service Papers, copy Census Records and other related research : Some light contact marks but generally VF-GVF - £1100