Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Gunner S. Worth, Royal Artillery
Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Gr. S. Worth. R.A. No. 7. Coy.) re-engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Gr. S. Worth. R.A. No. 7. Coy.) re-engraved naming, plugged, with Crimean-style suspension; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (Gr. S. Worth. R.A. 16th. Bde.) re-engraved naming, mounted in this order, very fine

Pair: Private J. Taylor, Coldstream Guards
Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Pve. Jas. Taylor. Coldm. Gds.) re-engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (Pte. Jas. Taylor. Coldm. Guards) contemporarily engraved naming, fitted with small swivel ring suspension, nearly extremely fine (5) £300-400

Simon Worth was born in Launceston, Cornwall, in 1833 and attested for the Royal Artillery in November 1853. He served with the 7th Company, 5th Battalion in the Crimean War, before serving for a further period of 7 years in India. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £5, in November 1874, before being discharged in April 1875, after 21 years and 129 days’ service.

Two men with the name James Taylor served with the Coldstream Guards during the Crimean War; the first James Taylor born in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire in 1835, and attested for the Coldstream Guards at London in November 1854 (a date which would preclude him from receiving the earliest clasps). He served with the 1st Battalion in the Crimea, and died at Balaklava on 19 June 1855. The second James Taylor went out to the Crimea as servant to Major-General Sir Henry Bentinck, and subsequently became an in-Pensioner at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.