Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Four: Private D. Batson, Royal Marines

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Sebastopol, Inkermann (R.M.), officially impressed naming; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857 (D. Batson, R.M.L.I.), irregular impressed naming; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Pte., R.M., 42nd Coy., 22 Yrs.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (D. Batson, Po. D., R.M.L.I.), irregular impressed naming, the second with (slack) refixed suspension and traces of brooch-mounting, about very fine or better (4) £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Jack Deacon.

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David Batson was born at Compton, near Sherborne, Dorset and enlisted in the Royal Marines at Portsmouth in June 1845, aged 21 years. Joining H.M.S. London in August 1853, he went on to witness active service with the Naval Brigade in the Crimea War, including Balaklava and the Sebastopol operations. However, no verification can be located for his entitlement to the Inkermann clasp. Batson was again actively employed in the Second China War, when aboard the Calcuttta, including the attack on Canton in 1857. He was finally discharged back in Portsmouth in February 1868, in which month he received his L.S. & G.C. Medal.