Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860 (Drumr. Thos. Vaughan, 1st Bn. 3rd Regt.) officially impressed naming, suspension tightened/refixed, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £160-200

Thomas Vaughan was born in Loughrea, Co. Galway, He attested for the 3rd Regiment at Cork on 4 January 1851, aged 14 years and was appointed a Drummer in February 1852. With the regiment he served in the Crimea, in India and China, gaining the Crimea Medal with clasp for Sebastopol, the Turkish Crimea Medal and China Medal with clasp for Taku Forts 1860. His conduct was stated to be ‘Bad, he has been addicted to drink’; his name was placed in the defaulter’s book fifty-one times and he was four times tried by court martial. Tried for some offence by court martial in November 1856, he was only saved from 50 lashes by the intervention of Major-General Buller, Commander of Troops on the Ionian Islands. Vaughan claimed his discharge at the termination of his second period of limited engagement on 7 September 1876.

With copied discharge papers.