Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Crimea Medal awarded to Gunner J. G. Twine, Royal Navy, who also received the Arctic Medal for his service in H.M.S. North Star during the Franklin Search Expedition of 1849

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (John G. Twine. Gunner) officially impressed naming, good very fine £600-800

John George Twine joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 1 February 1828, serving in H.M.S. Blonde, and was advanced Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Sapphire on 14 April 1835, and Able Seaman in the same ship on 31 May 1837. He transferred to H.M.S. Edinburgh on 4 October 1838, and was present in her during operations on and off the coast of Syria in 1840 (entitled to a Naval General Service Medal with clasp for Syria). Appointed Gunner 3rd Class on 27 March 1849, he served from that date in H.M.S. North Star, and took part in the Franklin Search Expedition of 1849-5); under the command of James Saunders she sailed in search of Franklin, reaching Beechey Island and Wellington Sound. The North Star’s primary task was re-supplying the Enterprise and the Investigator, but she failed to make contact with either of these two ships. On her return journey the North Star visited the north-western coast of Greenland where the crew wintered in Wolstenholm Sound. Twine, along with the rest of the crew, receiving the Arctic Medal 1818-55 for this expedition.

Advanced Gunner, Royal Navy, Twine transferred to H.M.S. Rodney on 4 April 1854, and served in her during the Crimean War, being present at the bombardment of Fort Constantine, Sebastopol, on 17 October 1854. Although the medal roll records him as receiving an officially impressed medal and the clasp Sebastopol only (and not the Inkermann clasp), the medal appears to be entirely as issued.

Sold with copied service record and copied medal rolls for all three medals to which the recipient was entitled.