Orders, Decorations and Medals

A set of four miniature dress medals attributed to Commander E. P. B. Kelso, Royal Navy

Baltic 1854-55; Crimea 1854-56, no clasp; Indian Mutiny, no clasp; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, the first three mounted as worn on a ‘buckle-bar’, the last on a separate buckle but with incorrect riband, together with an old label, inscribed, ‘Medals of the Crimea campaign 1854 belonging to E. P. T. Kelso, R.N., my uncle, E.M.S.L.’, good very fine (4) £100-140

Edward Barrington Purvis Kelso was born in March 1842, the son of Captain E. J. F. Kelso, 72nd Highlanders and Frances, only child and heiress of Barrington Purvis of Beccles, Suffolk, and Purvis Hall, Essex. Young Edward first went to sea as a Midshipman, under a cousin, Admiral Kelso, in 1854. His subsequent promotions were to Sub. Lieutenant in October 1861, Lieutenant in September 1863 and to Commander in August 1874, when he was placed on the Retired List. Afterwards the Lord of the Manor of Great Horkesley, he served as a D.L. and J.P. for Essex and died in March 1924, aged 82 years.