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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 178

107th (Bengal Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot

The unit was raised by the East India Company in 1765 and was re-raised as the 3rd Bengal (European) Light Infantry during the Indian Mutiny. Transferred to the British Army in September 1862, it embarked for England in 1875.

As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-Battalion regiments were linked together to share a single Depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 107th was linked with the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot, and assigned to district No. 43 at Roussillon Barracks in Chichester.

Just 2 Medals awarded to the unit for the Zulu War, the Medal with clasp '1879' to Captain Cavaye and this award.

The South Africa Medal awarded to Private J. Brockhurst, 107th (Bengal Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot

South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (1545. Pte. J. Brockhurst. 107th Foot.), good very fine and extremely rare to an Indian unit

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Estimate
£600 to £800

Starting price
£480