Defective Medals (5): Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (...orge Shearer Royal Artill...) contemporarily engraved naming, clasps all tailor’s copies; 1914 Star (Capt. E. L. P. Edwards E. York. R.) re-impressed naming; Jubilee 1887, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. H. Day. S. Divn.) abrasively polished; Coronation 1902, silver, cast copy; Coronation 1953, cast copy, heavy contact marks to first, nearly very fine or better (5) £60-80

George Shearer was born in Huntley, Aberdeenshire in 1829, and attested for the Royal Artillery in November 1847. He served with No. 1 Company, 11th Battalion, ‘W’ Battery during the Crimean War, and was discharged in April 1870, after 22 years and 153 days’ service.