Orders, Decorations and Medals

73rd Highlander Regimental Medal, engraved, obv. crowned ‘GR’ with ‘73’ above and ‘Second Battn. Highlanders’ below, with spriggs of thistle to either side; rev. inscribed, ‘A Reward for Military Merit given by the Officers to John Williams 1816, Mangalore’, 52mm., silver, with fixed ring suspension, ref. Balmer R.460, good very fine £220-260

John Williams served as Paymaster of the Northamptonshire Militia prior to being appointed, on the recommendation of Lieutenant-General Harris, to the Paymastership of the 2nd Battalion 73rd Foot on 31 May 1810. He served in this capacity throughout the active service period of the battalion. Placed on Half Pay on 13 December 1821, he died c.1824.