Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: General C. A. Lewis, 64th Foot, late Grenadier Guards: having ‘commanded Divisions of the Army in the trenches and the Grenadier Guards at the taking of Sebastopol’, he became Colonel of the 64th Foot in 1870

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Col., Gren. Gds.), regimentally impressed naming; Turkish Order of Medjidie, 5th class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, the first two with contemporary riband buckles for wearing and contained in an old fitted, velvet-lined leather case, the Turkish piece in a similar-styled leather case, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine (3) £800-1000

Charles Algernon Lewis, who originally purchased a Cornetcy in the 2nd Dragoon Guards in October 1825, was advanced to ‘Captain & Lieutenant-Colonel’ in the Grenadiers in December 1845 and to full Colonel in June 1854. Embarked for the Crimea in the Orinoco in the summer of 1855, he assumed command of the Grenadiers soon after his arrival that August and was subsequently employed as a “General of Trenches” before Sebastopol, in which capacity he served until the cessation of hostilities and his return home in June 1856 (Medal and clasp; Turkish Medjidie 5th Class and Turkish Medal). Lewis was advanced to Major-General in June 1860 and to Lieutenant-General in March 1869, and was appointed Colonel of the 64th Regiment in the following year. He was placed on the Retired List in the rank of General in June 1881.