Auction Catalogue

17 September 1999

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 344

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17 September 1999

Estimate: £250–£350

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Lieut. I. B. Dennis, 3rd Foot) contemporary engraved naming, some rubbing to the rim, otherwise nearly extremely fine £250-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brett Collection of Medals to The Buffs.

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James Bullen Dennis was the son of the former commanding officer of the Buffs, Colonel Sir James Dennis. He was Gazetted Ensign in the Buffs on 5 December 1851, and purchased his Lieutenancy on 7 April 1854. He was mortally wounded at Sebastopol on the 17th August 1855, in the portion of the trenches known as the Right Attack, had both legs and an arm taken off by a bursting shell, and died the next day as a result of his wounds. He was buried on Cathcart’s Hill, near the British camp, his memorial stating that he died on 4th October.