Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (J. Tate. Scots Fusilier Gds.) officially impressed naming, polished and cleaned, sometime plugged very neatly to bottom edge not affecting naming, therefore good fine £400-£500

John Tate was born in Northallerton, Yorkshire, and attested for service at Horse Guards, London at the age of 24, in November 1850. His service papers note that he was imprisoned, having been arrested by the Civil Powers and sentenced to two months imprisonment, ‘for being drunk and assaulting a female of the streets’. He served with the Regiment in the Crimea with his service papers confirm that he was present at the Battles of the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkermann, and the Siege of Sevastopol. He died ‘in the East’, at Scutari of illness on 15 January 1855.