Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (J. Sowerby. Coldstream Gds.) officially impressed naming, edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £800-£1,000

Bill Strong Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, May 2011.

John Sowerby was born in Hetton, Co. Durham, and attested for the Coldstream Guards at Durham on 17 February 1854, aged 18 years. He saw active service in the Crimea but died of diarrhoea at Scutari on 17 February 1855.
Sold with inscribed (damaged) card box of issue and damaged and stained envelope addressed to ‘Rev. J. Uirl’ at Durham, with remnants of Coldstream Guards red wax seal.