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Campaign Groups and Pairs 99 Pair: Chief Boatman in Charge E. T. Pitt, Royal Navy, later H.M. Coast Guard


Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (Edwd. T. Pitt. Ch. Boatn. in Chge. H.M. Coast Guard) traces of lacquer, nearly extremely fine (2)


£240-£280


Edward Thomas Pitt was born in Harwich, Essex, on 4 March 1826, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 9 January 1841. He served as an Able Seaman in H.M.S. Caesar from 10 February 1854 to 30 April 1856, and saw active service throughout the Baltic campaign. He joined the Coast Guard at a Boatman on 1 May 1856, based at Bembridge Station, Isle of Wight, and was advanced Chief Boatman in Charge on 8 March 1876, his final posting being at the Sandown Station, Isle of Wight. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 24 June 1880, and was pensioned on 1 June 1882.


Sold with copied record of service. x100


Pair: Private James Gusterson, 11th Hussars, a confirmed charger in the Light Brigade at Balaklava


Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (No. 1618. James. Gusterson. XIth P.A.O. [Hussa] rs.) regimentally impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (1618 James Gusterson XI PAO Hussars) regimentally impressed naming, fitted with swivel-ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine (2)


£3,000-£3,600


James Gusterson enlisted into the 11th Hussars in London on 8 December 1853, aged 20. For a time during 1855 he was the camp cook. He was in confinement from 18 January to 31 March 1856, and was discharged as unfit on 22 July 1873. He is confirmed as a ‘charger’ by all the main authorities and is additionally listed on the Balaklava Society members lists of 1875 and 1877 but not on the revised 1879 list. He died on 8 June 1880.


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Four: Private D. McMillan, 72nd Highlanders


Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (David McMillan 72nd Regt.) officially impressed naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (David McMillan 72nd Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (2656 David McMillan 72nd Foot) impressed naming, first two digits of number re-engraved; Turkish Crimea 1855, French issue (No. 2656 Private David McMillan 72nd Highlanders) contemporarily engraved naming, plugged and fitted with a Crimea- style suspension, generally very fine and better (4)


£600-£800


David McMillan was born in 1828 and attested for the 42nd Highlanders (Black Watch) on 4 March 1846, before transferring to the 72nd Highlanders in March 1852. He served for twenty one years, of which 14 years was spent overseas, including Bermuda, Malta and North America as well as India and the Crimea. During the Great Sepoy Mutiny he was present at the siege of Kotah, and the battles of Bunass and Tertagbuhr. Despite breaks in good conduct and a period of imprisonment he was awarded a Long Service Medal, and was discharged in October 1867. His papers make a reference to an application to the Lloyds Patriotic Fund in 1900.


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