Note 123 — THE PUNJAB CAMPAIGN. SIEGE OF MOOLTAN.
Reading edition
A superb gold medal, designed by William Wyon, Esq., was presented to this officer by the Honourable East India Company. The obverse bears the head of the Queen, superscribed Victoria Regina, and on the reverse are Victory and Valour crowning the arms of Major Edwardes; these figures are resting on the lotus flower, and beneath is the infant Hercules strangling the serpents, in allusion to the youth of the hero; within the border thus formed is the following inscription:—From the East India Company to Lieutt. and Brevt.-Major H. B. Edwardes, C.B., for his services in the Punjab, A.D. MDCCCXLVIII.