Indian Mutiny Medal. With clasp 'Delhi' (Gunr C. B. Sunderland, 3rd Bn Bengal Art.) Indian Mutiny Medal. With clasp 'Delhi' (Gunr C. B. Sunderland, 3rd Bn Bengal Art.) Indian Mutiny Medal. With clasp 'Delhi' (Gunr C. B. Sunderland, 3rd Bn Bengal Art.) Indian Mutiny Medal. With clasp 'Delhi' (Gunr C. B. Sunderland, 3rd Bn Bengal Art.) Indian Mutiny Medal. With clasp 'Delhi' (Gunr C. B. Sunderland, 3rd Bn Bengal Art.)

Indian Mutiny Medal. With clasp 'Delhi' (Gunr C. B. Sunderland, 3rd Bn Bengal Art.)

Died-of-Wounds: 6916 Gunner Charles Broke Sunderland, 3rd Company 3rd Battalion Bengal Foot Artillery, 'Died-of-Wounds' at Delhi (Camp Rao) 18 July 1857, reference L/AG/34/40/21 in which each the recipient is recorded as:

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Who died from wounds received in action at Delhi on the 18th day of July 1857

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Provenance: B.A. Seaby, London, April 1946 (sold for 10/6)

Charles Broke Sunderland, son Edward Sunderland (a Clerk) & Diana Sunderland (nee Brook) was born at Painthorpe, West Yorkshire in 1820, and was baptized at, Sandal Magna, St Helen, Yorkshire, England, on, 3 May 1820. Latterly the family re-located to, Lincolnshire, England, where Charles was brought up. Charles is shown recorded in the 1841 National Census for England & Wales, living with his parents and 5 x siblings (3 x brothers, John, George, Edwin & Sutliff & 1 x elder sister, Betsy) residing at, Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England. He attested for service in the East India Company sometime after 1841 (he does not appear in the 1851 Census), and was posted to the Bengal Presidency where he joined the Bengal (European) Foot Artillery, of the Bengal Army. At the time of the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny, Charles Sunderland was holing the rank of Gunner, and serving with the 3rd Company 3rd Battalion Bengal Foot Artillery, which unit was stationed at 'Meerut' - the major British Cantonment in North India - and where the Indian Mutiny broke-out on May 1857. Charles, and his unit were very early arrivals on 'Delhi Ridge', and would have seen much action prior to being confirmed 'Wounded-in-Action' and dying at 'Camp Rao' (proximity to Hindu's Rao's House) on 18 July 1857.

The recipients extant Last Will and Testament in the former India Office Records held at the British Library in London, record in detail the remaining estate of the deceased soldier, listing his few worldly possessions (mostly items of clothing (uniform) in his possession at his bivouac on Delhi Ridge, and back at Meerut Cantonment, when he died, - and which were subsequently sold / auctioned. Including defrayed payments in settlement of 'Servants' pay, and payment of 'Field Batta' for the Mutiny, the estate of Gunner Sunderland had a value of 107 Rupees & 6 Annas

Reference file series L/AG/34/33/4 vide 'Statement of Deposits made at the Central Treasury Fort William on account of Estates of deceased European Commissioned, Non-Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Soldiers of Her Majesty's Indian Artillery Forces against which no claim has been preferred within the prescribed period of twelve months from the date of such officers and soldiers decease and which are accordingly transferred to England. Received 26 July '59

The above cited records show that the widowed mother of Charles Sunderland, vide Mrs Diana Sunderland, or Wragby, Lincolnshire, England, was to receive the estate of Gunner Sunderland, which in Sterling equivalent was valued at £10 18 Shillings & 8 & ½ Penny's - such was the residual monetary value of a soldiers's life who had died in the service of the East India Company in 1857 on Delhi Ridge on 1 July 1857!

The medal offered fitted with a decent length of original silk medal riband

A most desirable Indian Mutiny medal that has not appeared on the medal market since 1946!

Condition: Mild toned about EF

Code: 22313