LIEUTENANT B.C. BAYNTON, 57TH FOOT (THE POST 1880 1ST BATTALION MIDDLESEX REGIMENT). Crimea Medal, 1 clasp, Sebastopol

LIEUTENANT B.C. BAYNTON, 57TH FOOT (THE POST 1880 1ST BATTALION MIDDLESEX REGIMENT). Crimea Medal, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (regimentally impressed in serifed letters: LIEUt. B.C. BAYNTUN 57th. REGt.). Scattered rim nicks, edge bruises and surface contact marks, otherwise with an attractive old dark tone and Good Very Fine.

Note: in the Army Lists of the period and in the medal rolls, the recipients surname is spelt Bayntun. The correct spelling of his surname was, however, Baynton, as given in the census return. With photocopied extract from medal rolls and 1881 census return.

Bathurst Chales Baynton entered the the 57th Regiment as Ensign on 13 February 1855 (from the Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia) and was promoted Lieutenant on 1 July the same year. He landed in the Crimea on 8 September 1855 and afterwards served at the fall of Sebastopol and the capture of Kinburn. For his services he was awarded the Crimea Medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish Crimea Medal. During 1861 he served in New Zealand (also entitled New Zealand Medal). Lieutenant Baynton retired through the sale of his commission in 1870.

In the 1881 census Baynton is recorded as a 48 year old gentleman residing at 47 Benfell Street, Epsom, Surrey, which was the home of his 48 year old elder brother Robert C. Baynton. Also resident in the Baynton household were Roberts 33 year old wife Elisabeth, his 17 year old son Frederick and a 19 year old domestic servant by the name of Annie Walton.