Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private John McKenzie, 93rd Highlanders, one of the ‘Thin Red Line’ at Balaklava

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (No. 2564 John Mackenzie 93d Highlandrs.) contemporary engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (John McKenzie, 93rd Highlanders); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, some edge bruising and light contact marks, otherwise about very fine (3) £1400-1600

John McKenzie, a Labourer from Inverness, enlisted into the 93rd Highlanders at Inverness on 16 November 1850. He served with the regiment at Malta from April 1854 and afterwards in Turkey and the Crimea until June 1856, when he returned to England. He embarked for India in June 1857, where he remained until 18 March 1861, when he appears in a list of ‘numbers discontinued in the regiment’ as ‘sent home 18th March 1861’. He was discharged from the Invalid Depot, Aberdeen, on 20 August 1861. Sold with full muster details, copied muster rolls and medal roll entries confirming all clasps.