Jellalabad Medal, first version, awarded to Private Hugh Henzey, 13th (The 1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry), 1842

Silver campaign medal produced by the Calcutta Mint. This first version of the medal features, on the obverse, a mural crown with the inscription 'Jellalabad' above. On the reverse, the date 'VII April 1842'. The medal is suspended from a straight suspension bar and a ribbon of a yellow vertical stripe flanked by white stripes and edged in blue and red.

The Jellalabad Medal was issued by the East India Company and awarded to the troops under the command of Major-General Sir Robert Sale at the old fortress of Jellalabad in Afghanistan. The garrison withstood a siege from mid-November 1841 until April 1842 when the besieging Afghans retired partly as a result of Sale's own sorties, including a brilliantly planned and successful attack on Akbar Khan's lines on 7 April, and partly upon the approach of Major-General George Pollock's Army of Retribution.