Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Sergeant John Baker, 89th Foot

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Chrystler’s Farm (Serjeant, 89th Foot); Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (89th Foot) short hyphen reverse, impressed naming, both medals fitted with silver ribbon buckles, contact marks and edge bruising, therefore nearly very fine and very rare (2) £3000-3500

See Colour Plate V

Ex Coutts Collection 1921 and Montagu Collection 1926.

Three officers and 77 men of the 89th Foot lived to claim the clasp for this North American action. One officer and nineteen men also survived to claim the medal for Ava. Of these, only eight pairs are known to have survived, at least three of which now reside in museums.