Standard letter from the War Office to Duncan Drummond Jnr, 16 Oct 1850 announcing the award of a medal to his brother John, serving with the 9th Lancers in India, for conduct in the Sutlej campaign.
Part of a volume of documents relating to the careers of John Young, gunner, Royal Navy, and Sgt Duncan Drummond, 66th Regiment of Foot, 1795 (c)-1826 (c).
From a leather bound volume of original manuscript material containing some modern genealogical notes by Mrs M Powell, 2003.
Associated with Battle of Oporto (1809) and Battle of Albuera (1811), Peninsular War (1808-1814).