Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private E. Boucher, Army Hospital Corps

China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860 (Edwin Boucher, Army Hospital Corps) officially impressed naming; Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (19 Pte. E. Boucher, A.H.C. 1873-4) both with silver ribbon buckles, the first nearly very fine, the second good very fine (2) £450-500

Edwin Boucher was born in Bath, Somerset, and enlisted into the Medical Staff Corps, at Westminster, on 21 November 1855, aged 22 years. He transferred to the Army Hospital Corps, as a Sergeant, on 1 November 1859, but was tried and reduced to Private for drunkenness in February 1861, the first of several such offences. He was discharged at Colchester on 26 February 1877, on termination of his second period of limited engagement, being then in possession of ‘Medal & clasp for Taku & Medal for Ashantee.’ Sold with copy service papers.