Auction Catalogue

23 September 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 66

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23 September 2011

Hammer Price:
£820

China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Cornet Fredk. Sedley, 1st Dragn. Gds.) officially impressed naming, claw tightened, good very fine £500-600

Frederick Sedley, appointed a Cornet in the 1st Dragoon Guards on 24 October 1857. Serving in the China 1860 campaign, he was present at Sinho, the fall of the Taku Forts, engaged in the actions of 18 and 21 September, and in the advance to Pekin.