Family Group:

Four: Gunner Robert Sparks, Royal Artillery
Crimea 1854-55, 1 claps, Sebastopol (R. Sparks. Gr. & Dr. 1st Batn. Rl...) officially impressed naming, last part of unit illegible through edge bruising; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (2460 Gunner R. Sparks Coast Bde. R.A.); Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with Crimea suspension; France, Second Empire, Medal of Honour for Saving Life, Ministry of the Marine and the Colonies, small silver medal, 6th issue, by Barre, 33mm, Napoleon III with laurel wreath facing right on obverse; 6th model reverse inscribed ‘A Robert Sparks Cannier Anglais. Services Rendus a la Marine Marchande Française 1866’ on cartouche flanked by supporters, with ring suspension, silver mark to edge, suspension re-fixed, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine

Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (3758038 Rfmn. F. Sparks. 5 The King’s R.) good very fine (5) £360-400

French award believed to have been for a rescue off Alderney on 19 October 1865.