Campaign Groups and Pairs

Pair: Sergeant Silvester Parlon, 22nd FootMeeanee Hyderabad 1843 (Silvester Parlon, 22nd Regt.) fitted with contemporary silver clip and silver bar suspension; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (1213. Sergt, S, Parlon, H.Ms. 1st Bn. 22nd Regt.) edge bruising and contact marks, the first good fine, the second very fine (2) £800-£1,000---Silverster Parlon was born at Birr, King’s County, Ireland, and attested for the 22nd Foot at Parsonstown on 3 April 1838, aged 18. He served abroad in the East Indies for 14 years 2 months and ‘served the campaign in Scinde in 1842 & 1843, present at the battles of Meeanee & Hyderabad; served with the force employed against the Afridis in the Boree Valley under Brigadier S. B. Boileau in November 1853.’ He was granted the L.S. & G.C. with Gratuity of £15 on 3 March 1857, and was discharged on 10 May 1859. Sold with copied discharge papers.------For more information, additional images and to bid on this lot please go to the auctioneers website, www.dnw.co.uk