Description
India General Service Medal 1854, bar Northwest Frontier, 712 Private John Marshall, 1st Bn 6th Foot, who died on service.
Naming has been officially renamed at the mint: “712 Pte J. Marshall. 1st Bn 6th Foot”
Good toned condition on long piece of original silk ribbon.
Officially engraved in the style of an Ashantee or Zulu Medal circa 1870s.
As he died before he could receive the medal, the medal was returned to the mint and upon being re-issued to a next of kin or relative was engraved in the style of the period of issue on a very neatly erased planchet.
Confirmed on the medal roll of “Miscellanous Campaign Medals returned to the mint”, which notes that 712 Private J. Marshall was entitled to this medal and clasp but the remarks explaining the reason for return as: “Dead”.
Private John Marshall served during the campaign with the 1st Battalion 6th Regiment of Foot, aka the Warwickshire Regiment.
The expedition:
“From 3rd to 22nd October 1868, an Expedition under Major General A.T. Wilde CB CSI against the Bazoti Black Mountain Tribes.” about 650 men of the 1/6th were present.
Shown on the earlier 1861 Census stationed with the 1st 6th Foot at Colchester.
