Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Gunner G. Richardson, Royal Artillery

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, this loose on riband, unnamed as issued; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Gr. & Dr. Geo. Richardson, 12th. Bn. R. Arty.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, plugged and fitted with simple scroll suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £340-£380

George Richardson was born in Shankill, Belfast, and attested for the Royal Artillery in March 1849. He served in the Crimea; with the 5th Company, 12th Battalion in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny; and in Bermuda. He was discharged at Portsmouth on 28 June 1870, after 20 years and 233 days’ service; with 54 entries in the Regimental defaulters book, and having been tried five times by Court Martial, he did not qualify for a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

The 5th Company, 12th Battalion, Royal Artillery received the Honour Title “Strange’s Battery” for their action near Doadpore (20 October 1858) when two guns, under the command of Lieutenant T. B. Strange, outran their own cavalry, drove over a gun emplacement, routed the enemy, and captured their guns.