Medals
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for the Alma, but he is not to be found on the Sebastopol clasp roll.
He was presented with his Crimean medal by Queen Victoria at a ceremony on the Horse Guards Parade on the 18th of May 1855.
The distribution of Crimean Medals on Horse Guards Parade, 18th of May 1855. Painting by Sir John Tenniel.
Commemorations
Likenesses
He appears in a photograph, taken it is believed, especially for Queen Victoria, with three others of his regiment. Stratton is the third man from the left. (See copy of this in the 4th Hussar file.) The original is in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.
(Click on image to enlarge)
[PB: In 2015 Roy Mills made a remarkable discovery of where exactly this photograph (and a comparable one for four men of the 17th Lancers) was taken (in front of Moulscoomb Place, Brighton, just outside Preston Barracks). I wrote a blog about his find in June 2015: "Oh, the rapture on spotting where these two charger photographs were taken".]
Life after service
He was granted his increased deferred pension of 6d. per day from the 3rd of October 1870, back-dated to the 30th of July. He was then living at 8, North Street, Ardingham, near Ashton-under-Lyne.
1881 Census
121, Rusholme Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock.
The 1881 Census Returns show him as a Railway Servant, aged 60 years, born at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, living with his wife, Ann, aged 35, born Corsham, Lincolnshire. Three children are listed, including two sons, the eldest also a Railway Servant. The other children are Scholars.