Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of four miniature dress medals attributed to Sergeant A. Thomson, V.C., 42nd Regiment, comprising: Victoria Cross; Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol; Indian Mutiny 1857-58, 1 clasp, Lucknow; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, mounted as worn (but reverse pin for wearing removed), good very fine (4) £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Dress Miniature V.C. Groups from the Collection of the Late David Harvey.

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Alexander Thomson, who was born in Edinburgh in 1824, was awarded his V.C. under the following circumstances in the Indian Mutiny:

‘For daring gallantry on 15 April 1858, when at the attack on the fort of Ruhya, in having volunteered to assist Captain Cafe, commanding the 4th Punjab Rifles, in bringing in the body of Lieutenant Willoughby, of that corps, from the top of the glacis, in a most exposed situation, under a heavy fire’ (London Gazette 27 May 1859 refers).

Thomson, who was also a veteran of the Crimea War, died at Perth in March 1880.