Original British Victorian Indian Mutiny Medal 1858 3rd Madras European Regiment Named to Private Edward Sadler Swords This example is maker marked

This example is maker marked 4 on the back of the pin typical early war manufactured version from the company Steinhauer & Lück of Lüdenscheid

As luck would have it

According to the advice we received from the Arms & Armor Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

and then severely wounded and outnumbered by the French

the order directing the forward movement arrived

Original British Victorian Indian Mutiny Medal 1858 3rd Madras European Regiment Named to Private Edward Sadler Swords This example is maker markedOriginal Item: One of a kind. The 3rd Madras (European) Regiment was formed at Bellary in the Madras Presidency on 18 November 1853 for service in the Honourable East India Company. It was converted to the 108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry) in 1861, which then amalgamated with the 27th Inniskillings in 1881 to become the 2nd Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. The Indian Mutiny Medal was a campaign medal approved in August 1858, for