Orders, Decorations and Medals

A fine ‘Thin Red Line’ group of four awarded to Corporal Charles Inglis, 93rd Highlanders
Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (No.1559 Charles Inglis, 93rd Highlanders) regimentally engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-58, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Chas. Inglis, 93rd Highlanders); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (1559 Corpl., 93rd Foot); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (Corpl.) regimentally engraved naming, fitted with Crimea suspension, light contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (4) £600-800

The lot is sold with a quantity of original items including a horn handled knife and a white Afghan woollen blanket, both believed to have been brought back from India by the recipient; original portrait photographs of his daughter and son (2), Col.-Sergt. David Inglis, 93rd Highrs., both of the latter in uniform; Memorial Card and printed poem to the memory of Corporal Charles Inglis; various related Birth and Marriage certificates.

According to the vendor (great granddaughter of the recipient) Charles Inglis was born in 1825 and enlisted at Stirling Castle in 1840. He joined the regiment then serving in Canada, and subsequently served with the 93rd throughout the Crimean War and in the Indian Mutiny, where he was present at the capture of Lucknow. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal in 1860/61 and after leaving the army became gate-keeper at Cambusbarron Woollen Mill near Sterling, and died on 6 January, 1903, aged 78 years. He was buried in Ballengech Cemetery just below Stirling Castle rock.