Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

73rd Highlanders 1816.
A circular engraved medal with double-stepped rim, 52mm, silver, unmarked, the obverse engraved with a crowned ‘GR’ with ‘73’ above and ‘Second Battn. Highlanders’ below, with sprigs of thistle to either side, the reverse engraved ‘A Reward for Military Merit given by the Officers to John Williams 1816, Mangalore’, with fixed ring suspension, good very fine £300-£400

Dix Noonan Webb, March 2008 and May 2016.

Referenced in Balmer R.460.

John Williams served as Paymaster of the Northamptonshire Militia prior to being appointed, on the recommendation of Lieutenant-General Harris, to the Paymastership of the 2nd Battalion 73rd Foot on 31 May 1810. He served in this capacity throughout the active service period of the battalion. Placed on Half Pay on 13 December 1821, he died c.1824.

Note: Owing to the uncertainty that exists with the original provenance and manufacture of some early engraved Regimental and Volunteer Medals, this lot is sold as viewed.