Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

36th Foot Medal (1836), silver electrotype, obv. in the centre, ‘36th Firm’, above, ‘Peninsula, 20th July 1836’, and radiating out from the centre, ‘Vimeira, Corunna, Barba del Porteo, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse’; rev. ‘Presented by his Br. N.C.Offrs. of the Depot as a token of Respect for his long services of 30 Years’, 37mm., silver, with straight bar suspension, engraved on rev. ‘36th Regt. Firm’, naming erased on obv., Ref. Hastings Irwin p. 255/256; Payne, p. 203; Balmer R.297, very fine £100-140

All three references make mention to an original medal, as above, but named to Colour Sergeant Samuel Richardson.