Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Ensign P. Aubertin, 22nd Regt.) impressed naming, slight edge bruising, otherwise good very fine and rare to this regiment £600-700

Peter Aubertin entered the 22nd (The Cheshire) Regiment of Foot, as an Ensign by purchase, on16 May 1865. He served in Canada during 1866 and was subsequently awarded a medal. He purchased his Lieutenantcy in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays) on 6 July 1870 and his Captaincy on 27 September 1871. Promoted to Major on 1 July 1881, he was placed on Retired Pay with the rank of Honorary Colonel in 1885. Sold with copied extracts from Army Lists.

The 1st Battalion 22nd Foot arrived in Canada on 17 April 1866 and was based at Fredericton, New Brunswick. Sent to counter possible threats from the Fenian Raiders of 1866, only one member of the regiment is listed on the rolls for the clasp - this to Colour-Sergeant C. Finucane. According to Ever Glorious, The Story of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment by B. Rigby, another reason for the placement of the regiment was to guard against British soldiers from deserting to the Federal Army of the United States of America, who were in great need of trained servicemen to act as instructors. Apparently the going rate for a ‘successful applicant’ was $200 and 10 gallons of rum! The regiment departed Canada for Ireland in 1869.