Orders, Decorations and Medals

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Balaklava, Sebastopol (R. B. Smyth, Asst. Surgn., 1st The Royal Regt.) engraved naming, contact marks, nearly very fine £400-450

Robert Beresford Smyth was born in Co. Dublin on 7 December 1826 and qualified as a M.B., T.C.D. in 1848. He entered the Army as an Assistant Surgeon with the 1st Foot in November 1850 and served with them in the Crimean War, being present at the battle of Balaklava and the siege and fall of Sebastopol. He was appointed Surgeon on the Staff in January 1858; with the 2nd Battalion 22nd Foot in May 1860, and with the 102nd Foot in June 1865. Smyth was promoted to Surgeon-Major of the 102nd Foot in October 1870. He retired on Half Pay in March 1874 and died at Berganio Alta, Italy on 15 September 1886. Sold with copied research.