Indian Mutiny, no clasp, (Regt. S. Major, 4th Eurpn. Lt. Cavy.), Indian Army L.S. G.C., (V.R.), 1st issue, H.E.I.C. arms obverse Sergt. Major, 10th Regt. L.C. 15th Jan. 1857).
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Indian Mutiny, no clasp, (Regt. S. Major, 4th Eurpn. Lt. Cavy.), Indian Army L.S. G.C., (V.R.), 1st issue, H.E.I.C. arms obverse Sergt. Major, 10th Regt. L.C. 15th Jan. 1857).
Frederick Close
L.S.G.C. Adjutant General’s Office, Meerut, 15 January 1857: Sergeant Major Frederick Close, of the 10th regiment of light cavalry, ‘a silver medal immediately, and a gratuity equivalent to £15 on discharge, in addition to ordinary pension.’
Frederick Close, a native of Lewisham, Kent, enlisted for the East India Company’s Bengal Artillery at Soho Square, London, on 21 June 1836. He was posted as Gunner to 1st Troop 2nd Brigade Bengal Horse Artillery and later promoted to Rough Rider and Farrier Sergeant. He does not appear on the artillery medal rolls for either of the Sikh Wars. He was appointed to act as Riding Master 10th Bengal Light Cavalry on 19 February 1857, and is shown as Sergeant Major by September of that year, and as Sergeant Major of the 4th Bengal European Light Cavalry by September 1859.
1st to 4th Bengal European Light Cavalry Regiments were hastily recruited in November 1857 to replace the eight regiments of Bengal Light Cavalry which had mutinied (including the 10th). Following the Mutiny all four European regiments were transferred to the British Army as the 19th, 20th and 21st Hussars.
A fine R.S.M.s. pair
