Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Quartermaster Sergeant Staff Clerk J. Blane, Staff of the Army, later Musician, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Qr. Mr. Sergt. Blane. Staff Clerk.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (Milty. Staff Clerk J. Blane, S. of the Army); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, this a copy; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, pitting and contact marks, therefore good fine, scarce to unit (4) £260-£300

James Blane was born in Cawnpore, India, in 1837 and attested for the 15th Foot in 1858 having previously served in the Northamptonshire Militia. Transferring to the Staff of the Army on 28 October 1872, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1876. He left the army in January 1883, after 25 years’ service, and subsequently joined the Royal Navy as a Musician, serving in H.M.S. Royal Adelaide and H.M.S. Vivid. He was awarded his Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 28 August 1893, and was discharged to pension on 15 August 1904. He died in 1923.