Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Assistant Commissary-General J. B. Barlee, Commissariat Department

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol, unnamed; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, Hunt & Roskill pattern, unnamed, both with old silver riband buckles and ribands for wearing, clasps professionally re-affixed to solid, un-riveted side-carriages , edge nicks, very fine and better (2) £400-450

John Buckle Barlee ‘served with the 4th Division throughout the Eastern campaign 1854-55, including the battles of Alma and Inkermann and the siege of Sebastopol (Medal with three clasps and Turkish Medal)’ (Hart’s refers), and was appointed a Deputy Assistant Commissary-General in February 1855. He appears to have retired in the 1870s, having gained advancement to Assistant Commissary-General in November 1865.

Sold with the recipient’s original warrant of appointment to ‘Deputy Assistant Commissary-General of Stores, Provisions and Forage’, in the name of ‘John Buckle Barlee, Gentleman’, and dated at Windsor on 18 September 1855; together with two pages from The Illustrated London News, taken from issues published in March and April 1855, and an old printed “Plan of the Battle of Alma”, with opposing units highlighted in watercolour.