A C.B. group of four awarded to General J. H. E. Dalrymple, Scots Fusilier Guards, who was wounded at the Battle of the Alma, 20 September 1854, and received his Crimea Medal personally from the hands of Queen Victoria

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, gold and enamel, hallmarks for London 1877, with swivel ring and straight bar suspension, with integral gold riband buckle; Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Lt. Col. I. H. E. Dalrymple, S.F. Gds. 18th May 1855) Hunt & Roskell engraved naming; Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast badge, silver, gold, and enamel; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian type, a contemporary tailor’s copy by ‘J.B.’, unnamed, with swivel ring suspension, the second, third, and fourth all fitted with contemporary top silver riband buckles, contact marks, generally very fine and better (4) £3,000-£4,000

Dix Noonan Webb, March 2007.

C.B. London Gazette 2 June 1877.

John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple was born on 6 January 1819 and was commissioned Lieutenant by purchase in the Scots Fusilier Guards on 10 November 1837. Advanced Captain by purchase in December 1844 and Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase in March 1853, he served in the Crimea War, up until 8 November 1854, serving at the battle of Alma, where he was wounded; at Inkerman and at the siege of Sebastopol. For his services he was awarded the Turkish Order of Medjidie.

Dalrymple returned early from the Crimea and was present at the medal award ceremony at Hyde Park on 18 May 1855 and received his medal directly from Queen Victoria - the date of which is recorded on his medal. He was promoted to Colonel in November 1854 and commanded the 2nd Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards on the expedition through New Brunswick after the ‘Trent affair’ in the Winter of 1861-62. He was promoted to Major-General in October 1866, Lieutenant-General in September 1874 and attained the rank of General in October 1877. He was appointed Colonel of the 108th Regiment Madras Infantry in November 1875 and then Colonel of the 71st Highland Light Infantry in January 1880. Appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1877 Birthday Honours’ List, he was placed on the Retired List on 1 July 1881, and died on 28 June 1888.

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