Original British Victorian Indian Mutiny Medal 1858 3rd Madras European Regiment Named to Private Edward Sadler Manufacture Type_Original Items or possibly the date it

or possibly the date it was acquired by the collector

The 24th landed at Tanahmerah Bay on 22 April 1944 and seized the important Hollandia Airdrome despite torrential rain and marshy terrain

There are additional markings on the gun and magazine

bored out or just that worn

Original British Victorian Indian Mutiny Medal 1858 3rd Madras European Regiment Named to Private Edward Sadler Manufacture Type_Original Items or possibly the date itOriginal Item: One of a kind. The 3rd Madras (European) Regiment was formed at Bellary in the Madras Presidency on 18 November 1853 for service in the Honourable East India Company. It was converted to the 108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry) in 1861, which then amalgamated with the 27th Inniskillings in 1881 to become the 2nd Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. The Indian Mutiny Medal was a campaign medal approved in August 1858, for