Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot Medal 1820, 36mm, silver, for fourteen years’ good conduct, obverse featuring George III receiving the medal from Colonel Crosbie on the terrace at Windsor, the Castle in the background, ‘Established under Royal Sanction’ above, ‘1785’ in exergue, the reverse inscribed ‘Reestablished by Col. Sir H. Gough 1st. January 1820’, with two palm branches below, ‘Order of Merit 22nd. Regiment’ around, unnamed and unmounted, in fitted case, minor edge nicks, very fine £60-£80

Referenced in Balmer, R.246.

Sold with three Queen’s South Africa Medal clasps, for Cape Colony, Belfast, and South Africa 1902; and three copy clasps, for Paardeberg, Driefontein, and Johannesburg.