Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

The mounted group of four miniature dress medals attributed to General E. P. Lygon, commanding the 2nd Life Guards at Waterloo, Order of the Bath, Military Division, 19mm., gold and enamel; Waterloo 1815, 17mm., silver, a struck piece, the disc set into a separate mount; Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 engraved clasp, Vittoria, 17mm., silver; Russia, Order of St. Vladimir, 20mm., gold and enamel, mounted as worn, each miniature with a ‘ribbon’ enamelled in proper colours, on a gold base, and suspended from a silver compound buckle bar with a pin fitting, the ‘Vittoria’ clasp a later but well executed addition, a very attractive group, c.1850, in case, good very fine and rare (4) £1600-1800

Ex D.N.W. 21 September 2001, lot 640.

Hon. Edward P. Lygon was the 4th son of Edward Lygon of Worcester who was later created Baron and Earl Beauchamp. He entered the Army as Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant in the 2nd Life Guards in 1803, attaining the rank of Major and Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd Life Guards in April 1815. Serving in the Peninsula War, he was present at the battle of Vittoria, 21 June 1813. He led his regiment at the battle of Waterloo and was created a C.B. and a Knight of the Russian Order of St. Vladimir. He was afterwards Inspector-General of Cavalry and General and Colonel-in-Chief of the 13th Light Dragoons. General Lygon died in 1860.