Lot Archive

Lot

№ 267

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1 December 2010

Hammer Price:
£700

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Hon. N. Fiennes, 23rd Royal W. Fusiliers) depot impressed naming, contact marks, nearly very fine £400-500

Captain The Honourable Frederick Nathaniel Fiennes Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes was born in 1836, the 5th son of the 13th baron of Saye and Sele. Educated at Eton. Commissioned into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, appointed an Ensign in 1854; Lieutenant in 1855 and Captain in 1858. Captain Fiennes served at the siege of Sebastopol, including the assaults on the Redan on 18 June and 8 September. Appointed a Military Knight of Windsor; he was on the Royal Foundation at the time of his death in 1896.