Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The group of seven miniature dress medals named to General Lord Alexander Russell, Rifle Brigade and Liverpool Regiment

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, gold and enamel, with straight bar suspension and gold riband buckle, centres slack; South Africa 1834-53, the disc set into a separate mount, edge inscribed, ‘Dy. Asst. Qr. Mr. Genl. Lord A. Russell, Rifle Brigde.’; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, the disc set into a separate mount, edge inscribed, ‘Major Ld. Alexr. Russell, 1st Battn. Rife. Brigde.’; Canada General Service 1866-70, 2 clasps, Fenian Raid 1866, Fenian Raid 1870, unnamed; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, silver, gold and enamel; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian die, unnamed; Sardinia, Al Valore Militare, silver, reverse embossed, ‘Spedizione d’Oriente 1856’, unnamed, mounted for display together with a Rifle Brigade badge and together with a larger Rifle Brigade badge, slight enamel damage, fine and better (7) £400-500

Lord Alexander George Russell was born in 1821, the 10th son of the 6th Duke of Bedford, and was educated at Harrow. As an officer in the Army he was A.D.C. to the Governor of Canada in 1847, served with the 1st battalion Rifle Brigade in the Kaffir War of 1852-53 as D.A.Q.M.G. to the 1st Division and was present at the battle of Berea, for which he was mentioned in General Orders and received the brevet of Major. He then served in the Crimea War for which he was mentioned in despatches, awarded the Sardinian Medal for Valour, the Turkish Order of Medjidieh and received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. He attained the rank of General in 1886 and was at this time Commander of H.M. Forces in Canada. He retired from active service in 1888 and was Colonel of the Liverpool Regiment 1889-91 and Colonel Commanding the Rifle Brigade in 1891. Created a C.B. in 1877, he gained the K.C.B. in 1903 and the G.C.B. two years later. He died in 1907.