Britain Baltic Medal Crimean War 1854 1856 by Wyon

Great Britain: Baltic Campaign Medal (1854 - 
1856). 
Signed by William Wyon (Chief Engraver of 
the Royal Mint, 1795-1851) and by Leonard 
Charles Wyon (Engraver and medalist,1826-
1891, son of William Wyon).
Silver military medal, with the the portrait of 
Queen Victoria on the obverse and the figure 
of Britannia seated on a rock between the 
forts of Bomarsund (right) and Sveaborg (left).
The medal was instituted in 1856 and awarded 
to the members of the British and the Allied 
(French and Sardinian) Expeditionary Forces 
to the Baltic during the Crimean War against 
Russia. 
During the Baltic Campaign, the Joined Allied 
Fleets not only managed to impose a naval 
blockade that weighed heavily on the Russian 
economy, but they also destroyed the Bomar-
sund Fort and bombarded Fort Sveaborg. 

The medal is unnamed as issued to an Allied 
recipient (The Baltic Medals were all issued 
unnamed, the British military personnel 
however had been given the chance to return 
their medals in order to have them engraved 
on the rim). 
The allied personnel rarely had their medals 
engraved).

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Crimean War 1854 - 1856

Item 100% Original - original ribbon

Condition as on the photos

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