Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Kingston Militia Artillery, Medal of Merit 1838, silver, engraved, 37mm, obverse, Canon over date ‘1838’, ‘2nd Indept. Compy. K.M.A.’ above; reverse, ‘Presented to Sergt. Mjr. E. Anderson’, ‘Medal of Merit’ above and wreath below, remains of small ring for suspension, edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine and a rare piece from the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-38 £200-£300

The Kingston (Upper Canada) Herald, of 9 May 1840, states, ‘that the time of service of the incorporated militia had expired the previous week, and that the men were discharged accordingly. The five battalions were to be re-embodied for two years longer, on a reduced scale, and have their respective quarters at Hamilton, Sandwich, Niagara, Prescott, and Cornwall - each battalion to contain four companies, under the orders of a Lieutenant-Colonel, &c., and muster two hundred and eighty privates. Besides this, there will be a coloured company attached to the third battalion. The Glengary light infantry company at Corkan Dulac; the first troop of dragoons at Toronto, and the detachment of the second company of Kingston militia artillery, are the corps to be considerably reduced from their former strength.’