Auction Catalogue

23 September 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

.

Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 469

.

23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£230

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Alma, Sebastopol (Lieut. B. C. Baynton, 57th Regt.), regimentally impressed, contact marks, nearly very fine £180-220

Bathurst Chales Baynton (listed as Bayntun in Army Lists) entered the the 57th Regiment as Ensign on 13 February 1855 and was promoted Lieutenant on 1 July the same year. He landed in the Crimea on 8 September 1855 and afterwards served at the fall of Sebastopol and the capture of Kinbourn. For his services he was awarded the Crimea Medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish Crimea Medal (not entitled to ‘Alma’ clasp. In 1861 he served in the New Zealand War. Lieutenant Baynton retired through the sale of his commission in 1870.