PUNJAB 1848, CLASPS, GOOJERAT, CHILIANWALA ‘QR. MR. MICHL. WALL, 61ST FOOT.’

SCARCE PUNJAB 1848 TO AN OFFICER OF THE 61ST FOOT WHO HAD BEEN COMMISSIONED FROM THE RANKS OF THE 17TH FOOT IN 1840

ergeant Major Michael Wall of the 17th Foot was commissioned Ensign on 6 November 1840. On 16 February 1841, he was appointed Quartermaster of the 61st Foot, serving with this Regiment during the Second Anglo-Sikh War. He was present at the passage of the Cheneb, the fighting at Saddalupar, at Chilianwala – where the 61st were very heavily engaged – and Goojerat.
Quartermaster Wall was later part of the force which pursued the defeated Sikhs towards the Khyber Pass in March of 1849. He retired on half-pay on 6 May 1856.
Wall’s service pre 1840 has not been researched but having reached the rank of Sergeant Major before being Commissioned Ensign, would mean a had a good few years previous service in the Ranks.