Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

17th Light Dragoons Medal, obverse: skull and crossbones with the motto, ‘Or Glory’, with the circumscription, ‘Seventeenth Light Dragoons’; reverse: within a laurel wreath, ‘India, Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, St. Domingo’, with legend above, ‘A Reward for Military Virtue’ (Jas. Cockburn) 44mm., silver, with bow suspension, Ref. Balmer R.96, (this medal illustrated), H.I. p.234, good very fine £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Regimental Medals from the James N Spencer Collection.

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James Cockburn, Quartermaster, 17th Light Dragoons, 13 July 1815. One of three named medals listed by Balmer.