Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant M. N. Woodard, 88th Regiment

Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (Lieut., 88th Regt.) contemporary engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Lieut., 88th Regt.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, contemporary tailor’s copy by ‘J.B.’, unnamed, swivel ring suspension, minor contact marks, very fine and better (3) £900-1100

Mortimer Neville Woodard was born in 1840, the son of the Rev. Nathaniel Woodard. Commissioned an Ensign in the 88th Regiment in April 1855 and promoted to Lieutenant in October the same year, he served in the Crimean War and the suppression of the Indian Mutiny before retiring from the service in 1865. A student of the Middle Temple in October 1865, he was called to the Bar on 6 June 1868.