Honourable East India Company Medal for Seringapatam 1799, silver, inscribed on the edge ‘Lieut. Richard Bent Bengal Native Infantry’, surname partly scored through, fitted with silver claw and bar suspension, some edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £150-200 Footnote Richard Bent was baptized at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on 24 June 1778. He was appointed Ensign on 5 December 1796, and arrived in India in February 1797, where he was promoted to Lieutenant the following December in the 7th Bengal N.I. He was attached to the 3rd Battalion, Bengal Native Volunteers, at Seringapatam. Appointed Adjutant, 2/7th N.I. 1803-05, and served during the operations against the Rane of Gohad, including the capture of Gohad in 1806. Promoted to Captain-Lieutenant in October 1807 and resigned in April 1809.
Honourable East India Company Medal for Seringapatam 1799, silver, inscribed on the edge ‘Lieut. Richard Bent Bengal Native Infantry’, surname partly scored through, fitted with silver claw and bar suspension, some edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £150-200 Footnote Richard Bent was baptized at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on 24 June 1778. He was appointed Ensign on 5 December 1796, and arrived in India in February 1797, where he was promoted to Lieutenant the following December in the 7th Bengal N.I. He was attached to the 3rd Battalion, Bengal Native Volunteers, at Seringapatam. Appointed Adjutant, 2/7th N.I. 1803-05, and served during the operations against the Rane of Gohad, including the capture of Gohad in 1806. Promoted to Captain-Lieutenant in October 1807 and resigned in April 1809.
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