Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain W. L. Sayer, Royal Marine Light Infantry

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (William L. Sayer, Lieut. R.N.) note, should be named ‘R.M.’; Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver, unnamed as issued, pierced with small ring and additional silver bar for suspension, good very fine (3) £1,200-£1,600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Roy Painter.

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Glendining’s, July 1998.

William Lawrence Sayer was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Marines on 14 November 1841, becoming 1st Lieutenant on 6 November 1840. He was 1st Lieutenant of Marines aboard H.M.S. Asia during the operations off the coast of Syria in 1840 (Medal with one Clasp and Turkish Medal). He was promoted to Captain on 9 March 1849, and served with the expeditions to the Baltic in 1854-55; and with the R.M. Battalion serving in co-operation with the French army at the siege and capture of Bomarsund (Medal). He was promoted to Major on the Retired Full-pay List on 2 February 1857.