Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private William Cullen, 44th Regiment

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (2696 William Cullen 44th Regt.) depot impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (N. 2696 Corporal W. Cullen. 44 Regt.) depot impressed naming, contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) £300-350

William Cullen was born in the Parish of Killoghart, Carrick on Shannon, County Leitrim. He attested for the 44th Regiment at Omagh, County Tyrone, on 19 April 1845, aged 23 years. He served overseas in the Mediterranean, 5 years 9 months, Turkey and the Crimea, 2 years 3 months, China, 1 year 9 months, and the East Indies, 6 years 4 months. He was discharged in the rank of Corporal on 16 July 1866, at his own request Free with Pension after Twenty One years Service. He ‘received a musket shot would in right thigh on the 18th June 1855 before Sebastopol.’ His papers note entitlement to the Crimean Medal with clasps for Alma, Inkermann and Sebastopol and the Turkish Crimean Medal. Entitlement to the China Medal with Pekin 1860 clasp has been crossed through and the medal roll shows that he was stationed throughout at Hong Kong Depot and therefore not entitled. Sold with copied discharge papers and a modern transcript of a letter written ‘Before Sebastopol, 22 June 1855’ to ‘My Dear Rosey’ in which he describes the action in which he was wounded.