Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant E. Wylds, Yeomen of the Guard, late 13th Light Infantry and Army Service Corps

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Edwd. Wylds, 1st Bn. 13th Lt. Infy.); Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (1825 Lance-Serjt. E. Wylds, A.S.C.); Jubilee 1897, bronze; Coronation 1902, bronze; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1825 Sergt. E. Wylds, A.S. Corps), the first two with edge nicks and contact marks, good fine, the remainder generally very fine or better (5) £600-800

Edwin Wyld enlisted in the 13th Light Infantry in February 1858 and quickly witnessed active service out in India, serving in Brigadier-General Kelly’s Column in the Nepaul Terai (Medal). Having then transferred to the Army Service Corps on returning from India in the mid-1860s, he served at Cape Coast Castle during the Ashantee campaign of 1873-74 (Medal). Wyld was discharged as a Sergeant in April 1879 and joined the Yeomen of the Guard in December 1889, in which capacity he added the Jubilee 1897 and Coronation 1902 Medals to his accolades (accompanying letter form St. James’s Palace, refers). He died in September 1905; sold with copied service record and portrait photograph.