Orders, Decorations and Medals

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Defence of Lucknow, Lucknow (S. Juniper, 90th Lt. Infy.) good very fine £550-650

After service with the 90th Light Infantry, for which he was awarded a medal with two clasps for the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, Samuel Juniper joined the Metropolitan Police Force on 27 November 1865; serving until 29 November 1888. In 1890 he was living at ‘1 Chester Place, Plumstead, Kent’, and as an ex-Constable in the Woolwich Dockyards Division, Metropolitan Police, he wrote to the Secretary of State to complain about a perceived injustice in the police pension he was being awarded. With copied letter and associated paper; together with a copied account of the 90th in India at the time of the Mutiny.