Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Four: Private W. Toesland, 12th Lancers

South Africa 1834-53 (12th Lancers); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Pte., 12th Lancs.), engraved naming with surname ‘Todsland’; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (12th Lancers); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with scroll suspension, suspension claw refixed on the third, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise generally good fine (4) £350-400

William Toesland was born at St. Marylebone, London and originally enlisted in the 2nd Dragoon Guards in January 1848, aged 18 years. Transferring to the 12th Lancers in June 1851, he went absent without leave for a week in the following month, and was imprisoned until September of that year. Active service followed in South Africa, where he was stationed at the Cape of Good Hope for two years, and in the Crimea, before Sebastopol, where he served for another year, but in mid-1856 he suffered a second term of imprisonment for misdemeanours unknown. Toesland next served out in India, where he would appear to have been wounded in the right hand at the battle of Banda on 19 April 1858. Discharged at Chatham in August 1859 as unfit for further service, he gave his intended place of residence as Wood Mews, Park Lane.