Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canada General Service 1866-70, 2 clasps, Fenian Raid 1866, Fenian Raid 1870 (Ens. Hon. M. Aylmer, 7th. R. Fus.) light contact marks, lacquered, good very fine £500-£700

Matthew Aylmer, 8th Baron Aylmer, served with the 7th Royal Fusiliers during the Fenian Raid of 1866, and then with the 54th (Richmond Infantry) Battalion, Canadian Forces. He was later advanced Major-General in the Canadian Forces, and succeeded his father as 8th Baron Aylmer in 1901. He died in 1923, and was succeeded to the peerage by his eldest son; the title is extant.