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Medal, campaign   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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William Wyon; Leonard Charles Wyon
Title
Medal, campaign
Object type Classification: 278
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English: India Mutiny Medal 1857-58 with one bar Medal awarded to Ensign Robert Bole Morrow, 46th Regiment of Foot silver medal; cusped swivel suspension bar; one bar; with ribbon with buckle brooch fastening obverse- diademed head of Queen Victoria with the legend- VICTORIA REGINA reverse- standing helmeted figure of Britannia holding a wreath in her outstretched right hand and over her left arm is the Union Shield; behind her is the British Lion and above the word INDIA; dates in exurgue- 1857-1858 bar- CENTRAL INDIA ribbon- white with two 6mm scarlet stripes named on edge- ENS. R.B. MORROW. 46TH REGT. markings- obverse- medalliist's name below shoulder- reverse- medallist's name below lion's rear paw- LC WYON
Date 1857-1858; Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901)-English reign; (1858); Indian Mutiny-wars
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diameter: 36mm

width: 32mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
809243 (object number)
Place of creation India
Exhibition history Display: 2F
Credit line Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, N2601
Notes India Mutiny Medal 1857-58 Medal awarded to Ensign Robert Bole Morrow (1836-1919), 46th Regiment bar- Central India- January-June 1858 Robert B Morrow was commissioned as an Ensign in the 46th Regiment of Foot on 26th February 1856. Col. Robert B Morrow's obituary in the Colonist, 26 July 1919, gives an account of his military career. "OBITUARY. - COLONEL ROBERT B. MORROW - INDIAN MUTINY VETERAN Colonel Robert Bole Morrow, a veteran of the Indian mutiny, and eldest brother of Mr H. Morrow, of Richmond, died recently at Auckland at the age of 82. Colonel Morrow was born in the County of Longford, Ireland, in September, 1836. He joined the Wcstmeath Rifles, Militia, as ensign, in 1854, and was subsequently transferred to H.M. 46th Regiment of the Line. The headquarters of this regiment was drafted to the Crimea in the same year, the regimental reserve in which Colonel Morrow was serving, being sent to the island of Corfu, in the Mediterranean. After the Crimean war Colonel Morrow accompanied the regiment as instructor of musketry, to take part in repressing the mutiny in India, in which he was wounded. He also served with the 2nd Ghoorkas in the frontier war against the hill tribes, for which he received the mutiny and frontier medals. He next served on the staff of the late General Sir Robert Garrett at Simla, and was afterwards temporarily employed on the staff of the then Viceroy, the late Earl of Mayo. Being a marksman of considerable repute, and a great sportsman, he accounted for, among other game, 64 tigers, and by request of the Viceroy, arranged the train of elephants, 40 in number, i'or the big game- shooting, on the occasion of the visit to India of the late Duke of Edinburgh. The duke had the good fortune to bag several tigers. After a service of 19 years in India, Colonel Morrow came to New Zealand in 1877, and had resided here ever since. He took an active part in church matters in connection with St. Sepulchre's parish for a number of years, and a very kindly interest as a committeeman, in the Children's Orphan Home and the Costley Boys' Institute. Upon the organisation of the King's Empire Veterans, he was appointed to the command."
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