Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (T. Fisher, 7th Regt.) unofficial rivets, one detached, contemporarily re-engraved in large serifed capitals, edge bruising, contact marks, good fine £100-150

Thomas Fisher was born in East Hendred, Wantage and attested for the 7th Regiment at Reading on 12 December 1854, aged 24 years. He served 14 months in Turkey and the Crimea and over two years in the East Indies. He was severely wounded in the left thigh during the siege of Sebastopol, 6 September 1855 (London Gazette 18 September 1855). He was discharged as unfit for further military service due to ‘Hepatitis Chronic: caused by service in India and as far as is known here, as the result of the use of intoxicative liquors or other vices’.

With copied discharge papers, gazette and roll extracts. Also with a copied outline of 7th Regiment activities, 1854-56, complied from regimental records.