Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Colour Serjeant G. J. Beer, 104th Regiment, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps

China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Geo. Beer, 2nd Bn. 60th Rl. Rifles) officially impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small reverse letters (3153 C. Serjt. G. J. Beer, 104th Foot); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (C. Sjt. G. J. Beer, 104/Foot) with King’s Royal Rifle Corps and 104th Bengal Fusiliers cap badges, medals with contact marks and edge bruising, good fine and better (5) £500-600

Ex Hayward’s Gazette, March 1973.

George Beer was born in North Shields, Northumberland. He attested for the 60th Regiment at Westminster on 31 August 1858, aged 18 years. He served in India, November 1858-February 1860; China, February 1860-November 1861, and India, September 1866-December 1871. He was promoted to Corporal in March 1861 and to Serjeant in June 1862. In March 1863 he transferred to the 104th Regiment - formerly the Bengal Fusiliers, and was promoted to Colour Serjeant in March 1867. He re-engaged in December 1867; and was reduced to Serjeant, August 1870-September 1872. Colour Serjeant Beer transferred to the East Kent Volunteers in October 1876. Awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. with a gratuity of £5 in 1877. Awarded the M.S.M. on 9 August 1912 with an annuity of £10 - the medal presented by the Mayor of Ramsgate. Discharged at Dublin on 2 September 1879. Latterly Drill Instructor at St. George’s Boys School, Ramsgate. Known as a prominent Freemason. He died at his home in Ramsgate on 10 January 1915.

With original newspaper cuttings (Thanet Advertiser and Echo) re the award of his M.S.M. (with photograph wearing his Masonic regalia) and his obituary; the recipient’s military Account Book; together with a quantity of copied research.