Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Ordinary Seaman Joseph Douglas, Royal Navy

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Josh. Douglas. Boy “Hastings”); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Josh. Douglas. Ord.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, fitted with contemporary swivel bar suspension, each medal individually suspended from a contemporary pin bar, hinge defective on pin, suspension and back-strap of clasp bent on the first, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (3) £500-£600

Joseph Douglas was born at Saffron Walden, Essex, on 18 June 1836, and joined the Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Hastings on 1 September 1851, advancing to Boy 1st Class on 25 October 1852. He joined H.M.S. London in the same rate on 6 May 1853, was advanced to Ordinary Seaman on 25 October 1854, and served in London until 26 January 1856, when he moved to Cormorant.