Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Serjeant G. Mormon, 95th Regiment

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (95th Regt.), officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (XCV Regt.), plugged and fitted with straight bar suspension, with individual brooch bars (first with pin missing), contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £160-200

George Mormon, a tailor by trade, enlisted into the 95th Regiment on 20 December 1854 aged 27 years. He served with the Regiment in the Crimean War and in the Indian Mutiny. In the latter campaign he gained the medal with the clasp for Central India. He was in possession of three Good Conduct badges and attained the rank of Serjeant in 1872. Mormon was discharged with a pension at his own request in 1876, with his intended place of residence stated to be Belleville, Upper Canada. Sold with copied service papers.