Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: 1st Class Staff Sergeant W. S. Lindsay, Army Service Corps, late Royal Artillery

China 1857-60, no clasp (Serjt., No.3 B. 13th Bde. R. Art.) officially impressed naming; Army L.S.& G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (15 Qr-Mr-Sergt., Milty. S.S. Corps); together with Crimea 1854-46, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (W. S. Lindsay, 6th Batn. Rl. Arty.), renamed; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lieut. W. S. Lindsay, R.A.), renamed; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, loop and ring suspension, erased naming, all except second with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) £220-260

William S. Lindsay was born in Gibraltar and attested for the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, Kent on 16 February 1846, aged 12 years, 5 months! He was discharged at his own request, with the rank of 1st Class Staff Sergeant in the Army Service Corps, on 30 September 1872. His recorded overseas service consisted of 1 year, 10 months in Turkey and the Crimea, 2 years, 7 months in India and 3 years, 7 months in China. Sold with copied discharge papers and extract from roll of invalid soldiers.