Orders, Decorations and Medals

Royal Fusiliers Regimental Medal, struck in silver, 38mm, obverse with Pallas and Victory crowning an aged seated soldier with laurel, in exergue ‘Order of Merit Estab. MDCCLXXXVIII’, reverse depicting a rose encircled by a garter and a Royal crown above a radiated star, legend ‘Military Virtue Rewarded’, in exergue ’VII Regt. or Royal Fusiliers’, fitted with steel clip and straight bar suspension, several edge bruises, otherwise good very fine £80-120

This award was instituted in January 1767 by Lieutenant Colonel Sir Alured Clarke. Refer Regimental and Volunteer Medals, by J. L. Balmer, R188.