Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of three miniature dress medals named to Captain E. Utterton, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was killed at the Gate Pah on 29 April 1864

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, edge engraved, ‘Lient. E. Utterton 23rd. Royal Welsh Fusiliers.’; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow, edge engraved ‘Lient. E. Utterton. 23rd. Royal Welsh Fusiliers.’; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, edge engraved ‘Lient. E. Utterton. 23rd. Royal Welsh Fusiliers.’, mounted as worn from a composite silver buckle, very fine (3) £240-280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Edwin Utterton was born on 16 September 1829 in Norwood, Middlesex, and was commissioned Ensign in the 23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot on 30 April 1855. He served with the 23rd Fusiliers at the siege and fall of Sebastopol, including the second assault on the Grand Redan, 8 September 1855, and was promoted Lieutenant two days later on 10 September of that year. He subsequently served in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, and took part in the Relief of Lucknow as part of Lord Clyde’s force, the defeat of the Gwalior contingent at Cawnpore, the affair of the Ramgunga, the siege of Lucknow (Mentioned in Despatches), and the Trans-Gogra operations when the rebels were driven from Oude into Nepal. Promoted Captain on 1 January 1861, he transferred to the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot on 23 September 1862, and served with them in New Zealand during the Maori Wars. He was killed in action during the celebrated assault on the Gate Pah on 29 April 1864.