Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

21st Light Dragoons Medal for Merit, silver oval award, unmarked, obverse, crowned ‘G.R.’ cypher with regimental title on scroll, ‘Merit’ and ‘1799’ below, reverse engraved, ‘The Gift of Lieut. Col. John Sullivan Wood to Sergt. J. Boyd, for Merit in His Majesty’s 21st Light Dragoons’, 49mm. diameter, 71mm. overall height, including integral loop suspension, good very fine £100-150

See reference R105 in Balmer’s British and Irish Regimental & Volunteer Medals 1745-1895 (Volume I, Regular Army).