Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

84th Foot Reward of Merit Medal, a skeletal oval medal, 42mm x 37mm, silver, the obverse engraved with crown at top, ‘GR’ above, thistles below, ‘Nemo Me Impune Lacesset’ around; the reverse engraved ‘Patrium Revocate Decus’ around, ‘In Reward of Merit’ to centre, ‘2d. Batn. Y.R.H. Regt. 1775’ below, with loop suspension, good very fine and an extremely rare medallic award from the US Revolutionary War period £400-£500

The 2nd Battalion, 84th Regiment of Foot, known initially as the ‘Young Royal Highlanders’, before being officially absorbed into the 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants), was raised in North America by Major-General John Small in 1775, primarily to defend British possessions in present-day Canada from attacks from American Revolutionaries from the 13 American Colonies. The majority of the original recruits were former members of the 42nd Regiment of Foot who had taken their discharge and remained in North America following the conclusion of the Seven Years War in 1763.