Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private T. Elger, Grenadier Guards

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (T. Elger, Grenadier Gds.), officially impressed naming; France, Second Empire, Medaille Militaire, 2nd type, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel damage; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, pierced with ring suspension, some edge bruising, generally very fine (3) £1200-1500

Private Thomas Elger, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, is confirmed as having been awarded the Medaille Militaire. The award is listed in British War Medals and How they were Won, by Thomas Carter - ‘Private Thomas Elger (Grenadier Guards, Third Battalion), served during the whole of the campaign’.