British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major A. C. Snodgrass, 38th Foot, severely wounded in the first attack on the Redan when acting as A.D.C. to his uncle, Major-General Sir John Campbell, who was killed on that occasion

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Lieut. A. C. Snodgrass, A.D.C. to Sir John Campbell) contemporary engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Capt. A. C. Snodgrass, 38th Regt.); Turkish Crimea, British issue, contemporary tailor’s copy by ‘J.B.’, together with companion set of three miniature medals, all fitted with silver ribbon buckles, light contact marks to the first, otherwise good very fine (6) £1000-1200

Sold with his original commission document as Captain of a Company in the 38th Regiment, dated 29 December 1854.

Archibald Campbell Snodgrass was born in the spring of 1832 at Government House, Fredericton, New Brunswick, where his father was D.Q.M.G. to the forces, and his grandfather, General Sir Archibald Campbell, G.C.B., was lieutenant-governor of the colony. He entered the army as an Ensign in the 38th Regiment on 6 October 1848, becoming Lieutenant in November 1851 and Captain in December 1854. Snodgrass landed with the Army in the Crimea at Old Fort on 14 September 1854, as A.D.C. to his uncle, Major-General Sir John Campbell. He was present at the battles of Alma, Inkermann, the expedition to Kertch and the siege of Sebastopol, where he was severely wounded and his uncle, Major-General Campbell of the 4th Division, was killed on 18 June 1855, in the first attack on the Redan. In addition to the British and Turkish medals, Snodgrass was awarded the 5th Class of the Medjidie and the Sardinian silver medal for valour, and was also made a Brevet Major. He subsequently served with the 38th Regiment in the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58 and was present at several engagements and at the siege and capture of Lucknow. Major Snodgrass died at Millbank, near Southampton, on 26 November 1863. Snodgrass appears with Captain Hume (Campbell’s other A.D.C.) in an image taken by Roger Fenton, the famous Crimean war photographer.

For the Waterloo medal awarded to his father see Lot xxx.