Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal J. Thompson, Royal Artillery

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Corpl. J. Thompson, H. Battery, Royal Artily) contemporary engraved naming, possibly renamed; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (Corpl. J. Thompson, H. Battery, Royal Artily) engraved naming, pierced with ring suspension, both with ornate brooch bars, first with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine; second very fine (2) £220-260

With a damaged exercise book bearing the label, ‘J. Thompson, 26 Grange St., Swann’s Estate, Hull’, containing Thompson’s hand-written reminiscences of his time in the Crimea, addressed to his daughter, bearing the date 1902. Also with a large photograph of Thompson in later life, shown wearing his medals, contained within a wooden glass-fronted frame, 47.5 x 36.5cm.