Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Regimental Sergeant-Major J. Laverty, 77th Regiment of Foot, later Yeoman of the Guard

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (J. Laverty. Serjt. 77. Foot.) depot impressed naming, suspension claw re-affixed; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (Staff Sergt. Major John Laverty Genl. Staff); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (No. 2755 Serjt. J. Laverty. H.M. 77th. Foot.) contemporarily engraved naming, fitted with an IGS-style suspension, heavy edge bruising and contact marks to the Crimea medal, this fair, the rest better (3) £400-£500

John Laverty was born at Carrickfergus, County Antrim, and attested for the 57th Foot at Belfast on 18 March 1853, aged 18. He volunteered to the 77th Foot in February 1854 and served with the regiment in the Crimea (Medal with 3 clasps, and Turkish medal). He received his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in March 1871 and was discharged in the rank of Sergeant-Major on 31 March 1874. He was appointed a Yeoman of the Guard on 31 January 1885, and was present at the inspection by Kaiser Wilhelm in 1891; that by Queen Victoria in 1897; and at that by King Edward VII in 1901. He was one of those senior Yeomen awarded the M.S.M. without annuity on 1 May 1907. He died on 15 November 1913.

Note: These medals, together with the recipient’s Jubilee 1887, Coronation 1902, Coronation 1911, and Meritorious Service Medals were formerly on loan to the Middlesex Regimental Museum, but were returned to the family when it closed down and been subsequently separated. His other four medals were sold in these rooms in May 2019.

Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts.