India Mutiny Medal clasp Lucknow (THOS LEDGER. 1ST EURN. BENGAL FUSRS.)
Thomas Richard Ledger served with the 1st European Bengal Fusiliers. He was born in Darton, Yorkshire in 1834, attesting for service in 1856. He suffered a "Rupture" moving a cannon into position before the battle of Alum Bagh in 1857 and, after a medical board was convened, was declared Medically Unfit for the Army. As a result of this debility he was finally discharged in 1870 and died in Lancashire in 1896.
Faint traces of brooch mounting evident on the obverse.
