Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore

Three: Colour Sergeant J. Mortimore, Royal Marine Light Infantry, later Sergeant, 2nd South Devon Militia

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (J. Mortimore ⁎ Cr. St. R.M.L.I.) contemporarily engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 2nd issue, (3263 Sergt. Jas. Mortimore. 2nd South Devon Militia.) with minor official corrections; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (I. Mortimore, Cr. Sgt. R.M.L.I.) contemporarily engraved naming, fitted with an IGS-style suspension, good very fine (4) £400-£500

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James Mortimore was baptised at Witheridge, near Tiverton, Devon on 17 April 1822 and attested for Unlimited Service with the Royal Marines at Exeter on 28 April 1841, receiving a bounty of three pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence and being posted 103 Company, Royal Marines. He embarked in H.M.S. Spartan, a 26-gun sixth-rate ship of the line, on 7 September 1841, remaining in her until September 1845. Promoted Corporal in the 79th Company on 15 January 1847, and a Sergeant in the 3rd Company on 1 January 1848, he next embarked in H.M.S. Caledonia, a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line, on 16 May 1848, remaining in her until 24 June 1851. Embarking, Supernumerary, in H.M.S. Hannibal and H.M.S. Royal Albert, with the Black Sea Fleet, on 9 November 1854, he was next taken in H.M.S. Meteor, an Aetna-class ironclad floating battery, Black Sea Fleet, and was promoted Colour Sergeant in the 105th Company on 10 January 1856. Disembarking from H.M.S. Meteor on 2 May 1856 he returned home and is shown in the 1861 Census as Colour Sergeant R.M., H.M.S. Styx, Port Royal, Jamaica. Disembarking from H.M.S. Styx on 6 June 1861 he was discharged on 9 May 1862 having served 21 years and 12 days. In the 1871 Census he is recorded as Colour Sergeant, South Devon Militia, Depot Compton Gifford, Plymouth, and in the 1881 Census as a Greenwich Pensioner and Bailiff of County Court, 3 Exeter Street, Tavistock. He died in Tavistock on 4 October 1883, aged 62.

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