Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (R. Porter, 5th Dragoon Gds.), officially impressed naming, edge bruising, otherwise very fine £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Darwent.

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Robert Porter was born in Nottingham and enlisted in the 5th Dragoon Guards in April 1839. Although the exact date of his death is not recorded, muster rolls of the period confirm that he died at Scutari, where he had been sent on 31 October 1854. They further verify that he was entitled to the Medal ‘for services in the Crimea’, and possibly with one clasp for ‘Sebastopol’.