Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant Bathurst E. Wilkinson, 4th Dragoon Guards

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Lieut. Bathurst Wilkinson. 4th Dgn. Gds.) Hunt & Roskell style engraved naming; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamels, correct for period; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with replacement swivel ring suspension, all three fitted with contemporary silver ribbon buckles with gold pins, toned, nearly extremely fine (3) £600-£800

Bathurst Edward Wilkinson was appointed Cornet, by purchase, in the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards on 17 August 1852, and promoted to Lieutenant on 8 December 1854. He ‘served in the Eastern campaign of 1854-55, including the siege of Sebastopol, and the attack on the Russian outposts on 19th Feb. 1855 (Medal and Clasp).’ He resigned by sale of his commission during 1858, having seemingly inherited several substantial estates in Yorkshire including Potterton Hall, where he lived until about 1893 when he went to live in the south of England. He died at Southsea on 1 May 1901, aged 66.

Sold with copied research including confirmation of Medjidie and some family history.