Pair: Private W. Halls, Rifle Brigade, who died at Scutari on 8 February 1855

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (W. Halls. 1st. Bn. Rifle Bde.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (W. Halls. 1st. Bn. Rifle Bde.) contemporarily engraved naming, pierced with ring suspension, edge bruising and light contact marks, good very fine (2) £500-£700

William Halls was born at Bildestone, Suffolk, in 1828 and attested for the Rifle Brigade at Ipswich on 15 December 1845. He served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Third Kaffir War from January 1852 to January 1854 (Medal), and subsequently in the Crimea. He was admitted to Scutari Hospital on 27 December 1854, and died at Scutari on 8 February 1855.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts and other research.