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№ 597

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29 June 2022

Hammer Price:
£120

Scottish Naval and Military Academy General Merit Medal, an unusual relic with the outer band of the medal but lacking the central medallion, silver, the reverse engraved ‘General Merit, 2nd Session’, with 4 clasps, for Arithmetic, History & Geography, Mil. Drawg. & Surveying, and Fortification, the reverse of all contemporarily engraved ‘Mr. Thos. K. Morgan 1st Prize 22nd. July 1853’, with top riband pin, save for the missing central medallion nearly extremely fine £100-£140

Thomas K. Morgan was commissioned Lieutenant in the 63rd Regiment of Foot, and served with them in the Crimea. He was wounded at the Battle of Inkermann, and died at Scutari.