Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Quarter-Master Sergeant John Ferguson, Royal Engineers
Baltic 1854-55 (2nd Crpl. J. Ferguson, Rl. Sprs. & Mnrs.) officially impressed naming; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (R.S. & Miners) contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea, French issue, unnamed; Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (2491 Q.M. Sergt. J. Ferguson, Late Rl. Engrs.); Great Exhibition 1851, bronze medal ‘For Services’ (John Ferguson, R.S. & M.) impressed naming, fitted with silver ring for suspension, the claw covering part of naming, the earlier campaign awards with contact marks, good fine and better, otherwise good very fine, the first very scarce (5) £900-1100

Confirmed on the roll of Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers and Miners entitled to the Baltic Medal. Approximately 100 Baltic medals were issued to the British Army, all to engineers and sappers who were engaged in the demolition of Russian fortifications at Bomarsund and Sveaborg. The medals were all impressed in the same style as for the Military and Naval General Service medals. John Ferguson is noted on the roll as a smith by trade. He was awarded the M.S.M. some time around 1885 with an Annuity of £10.