PRIVATE JOHN COSTELLOE, 10TH (NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE) FOOT (THE POST 1880 LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT). Punjab Medal, 2 clasps, Goojerat, Mooltan

PRIVATE JOHN COSTELLOE, 10TH (NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE) FOOT (THE POST 1880 LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT). Punjab Medal, 2 clasps, Goojerat, Mooltan (officially renamed, engraved in running script in the same style as seen on medals with engraved namining issued to Indian Army units: 1941 John Costelloe 10th. Regt.). Overall light contact marks, rim contact marked at 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock, otherwise Very Fine.

Medal accompanied by 4 pages of photocopied discharge papers. John Costello attested for the 10th Foot on 6th April 1843, and spent a total of 22 years and 111 days with the regiment before being finally discharged on 25th July 1865 at Chatham. Private Costello spent 15 years and 10 months in the East Indies, during which time he earned medals for the Sutlej campaign, the Punjab (clasps for Goojerat and Mooltan) and the Indian Mutiny (Lucknow clasp). He was wounded in action on 20th July 1857, at Arragh, receiving a gunshot wound to the right leg.

Given that the naming on this medal is engraved in the same style as that on medals issued to Indian Army units, it is probably a late issue medal, possibly an official replacement for Private Costello’s original medal lost during the Indian Mutiny (?).