Auction Catalogue

25 February 1998

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 70

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25 February 1998

Hammer Price:
£90

Crimea 1854-55, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Pte. Saml. Westwood, 33d Regt.) contemporary engraved naming, old repair to clasps and suspension detached at claw, contact marks, nearly very fine £100-150

With copied service papers confirming ‘This man is unable to perform his duties as a soldier, owing to his having received a gun shot wound in the right knee joint, whilst engaged in action at the Battle of the Alma.’