Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. Rankin, 92nd Highlanders

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Jas. Rankin, 3858, 92d Regt.), privately engraved naming, suspension refitted; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Jas. Rankin, 92nd Highlanders); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (3247 Pt. J. Rankin, 57 Regt.), privately engraved, plugged and fitted with mount and straight bar suspension, edge bruising, contact marks, good fine and better (3) £350-400

The 92nd (Gordon) Highlanders were not present as a regiment in the Crimea. The only Gordon’s in the war were officers on the staff, their batmen and a number of volunteers who were used to fill the ranks of the 30th, 44th and 55th Regiments. It is possible that Rankin was one of the latter. Sold with some copied research.