ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Single British Campaign Medals, The Rare Scinde Medal with Hyderabad 1843 Reverse awarded to Acting Gunner R. White of the Honourable East India Company Ship Meteor (R: White Act: Gr E:I:C:SR Meteor), officially impressed naming fitted with original German silver bar suspension. Good very fine and rare. £3000-3500
Only 50 medals with the Hyderabad reverse were issued to European recipients aboard Meteor (16), Comet (17) and Nimrod (17). However twenty-one of these medals were not claimed by the recipients and were subsequently returned to the India Office. According to a note on the medal roll, Acting Gunner White’s medal, together with examples for the Meteor and Nimrod, were “Given to Mr Stewart Mackenzie [a well-known collector of medals] in exchange for a new medal by permission of Lord G. Hamilton 24 April 1877”. The remaining eighteen returned medals were in all probability melted down, leaving as few as 32 medals issued.
Richard White, a Londoner, is recorded in the list of European Seamen in the Indian navy Establishment up to 31 December 1842, as being 34 years of age and belonging to the H.C.V Meteor. He arrived from England in the Lady East in 1840, and received the Honourable Company’s Bounty on 18 February of that year. He signed on for five years’ service, but died at Sakhen on 20 September 1843.
Ref: IOL L/MAR/C/745; Medals awarded to the Indian Navy for the Sind Campaign 1843 (Bullock)
ex Whalley Collection, 1877
ex Payne Collection, 1910
ex Ritchie Collection, 2005
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