A brace of campaign medals for service during the two British-Sikh Wars: Corporal John Lush, 9th Lancers

- Sutlej Medal 1845-46. With 'Sobraon' reverse. No clasp (John Lush 9th Lancers)
- Punjab Medal 1848-49. 2 x clasps 'Chilianwala' & 'Goojerat' (J. Lush, 9th Lancers.)

Medals and clasp verification: The campaign medal rolls for the Sikh Wars are not currently searchable on-line, and are held and accessible at The British Library in the former India Office Collection(s)

John Lush held the regimental number 778 during his entire service with the 9th Lancers. Reference 'British Army, Worldwide Army Index' held in file series WO 12/895 at The National Archives, the return for period 01/01/1851 to 31/03/1851, records John holding the rank of Private and based at the Umballa Cantonment, India, at which time the regimental designation in full was 9th The (Queen's Royal) Regiment Of (Light) Dragoons. The return for the second quarter of 1861, next records John, for the second quarter of 1861, then based located at Aldershot Camp, Hampshire, England, where he was holding the rank of Corporal, serving with 9th Lancers (Queens Royal)

John Lush son of Henry Lush (a Labourer) and Maria Lush (nee Green) was a native of, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England, where he was born in 1823. He was baptised at Gussage St. Andrew. Dorset, on, 3 March 1823, at which time the abode of the family was Cashmoor. At the time of the compilation of the National Census for England and Wales in 1841, John, is shown, residing at the village of his birth, at, Sixpenny Handley. was re of John enlisted in the British Army sometime afOn 23 November 1859, while stationed at Exeter Barracks, Lance-Corporal John Lush, 9th Lancers, who at the time was described as 36 years of age, is recorded to have married Miss Jane Jemima May (age 23) at the parish of St. David's Church, Exeter, Devon (a wedding notice appeared in The Western Times (Exeter) issue of, 3 December 1859. The couple were subsequently blessed with a son, John Henry Lush, who was born at Farnham, Dorset, sometime during the first quarter of 1861. John Lush described as Permanent Barrack Corporal 1Xth Lancers is recorded to have died at Aldershot, Hampshire, in April 1862, and was buried at the Military Cemetery, Aldershot, Hampshire, on, 23 April 1862. At the time of his burial he was recorded as being 43 years of age

Condition: VF

Code: 24353