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8 September 2015

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№ 99 x

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8 September 2015

Hammer Price:
£360

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Alma (C. Woodward, 33rd Regt.) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £300-360

Private Charles Woodward, Grenadier Company of the 33rd Regiment, was wounded at the battle of Alma, 20 September 1854. As a result of his wounds he was sent to Scutari on 30 September. He died of his wounds sometime after this date as his name is commemorated on a memorial stone to the 33rd at Scutari, listed under, ‘Sacred to the Memory of the Non Commissioned Officers and Privates of the Gr. Company 33rd Duke of Wellington’s Regt. who fell in the defence of their Queen and Country during the campaign of 1854-5 ....’ With copied research.