Indian Mutiny clasp Defence of Lucknow, 32nd. Foot original defender, wounded 30/07/1857
J. Maxey, 32nd L.I.
Wounded 30/07/1857 the attempted storming by mutineers on the half-moon Redan Battery
Roll confirms and states ‘Disabled by wound 30 July, 1857. Invalided to England 15 March 1858, discharged’
Two batteries, one in the north, and one in toward the south, provided much needed firepower. The half-moon-shaped Redan Battery, which boasted two 18-pounders and a 9-pounder, was named after a famous battery in the recently concluded Crimean War.
