Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel T. B. Fanshawe, 33rd Regiment

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (T. B. Fanshawe. Captn. 33rd Regt. 18[55]) contemporary engraved naming; Abyssinia 1867 (Major T. B. Fanshawe 33rd D.W. Regt.); Turkish Crimea, British issue (T. B. Fanshawe. Captn. 33rd Regt. 1855) naming engraved in same style as first, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine and better (3)
£700-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The collection of Medals formed by the Late Clive Nowell.

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Thomas Basil Fanshawe was born on 3 December 1829, at Dagenham, Essex, and commissioned into the 33rd Regiment on 14 April 1846. He served in the Crimea from June 1855, including the siege of Sebastopol and the assault on the Redan, 18 June. Captain Fanshawe had arrived from England to join the regiment on the night before the assault on the Redan. He later wrote home of the assault.

We had to cross, on leaving the trenches, 150 yards of open ground, exposed to a very heavy fire of grape-shot from the enemy... Our loss, I regret to say, was very considerable, having had 50 men killed or wounded... I have had a bruise in the shoulder from a stone or spent ball which has made it stiff... The loss our Division suffered is frightful... It seems the general opinion we shall never take the place by storm, and therefore we are going to attack the Redan and Malakoff by sap.

He subsequently served as second in command of a wing of the regiment with the Okamundel Field Force at the siege of Dwarka in 1859, and, having been promoted to Major in April 1865, in the Abyssinian campaign where he was present at the storming and capture of Magdala in April 1868. Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1873, he retired on 2 March 1878. Sold with copy record of service.