Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of five miniature dress medals named to Lieutenant-Colonel S. C. Millett, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was severely wounded upon the second assault on the Redan, 8 September 1855

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol, edge engraved, ‘S.C. Millett, 23rd R.W. Fus.’; Ashantee 1873-74, 1 clasp, Coomassie; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, silver, gold and enamel; Italy, Sardinia, Al Valore Militare, silver, embossed, ‘Spedizione d’Orient’, reverse centre lightly engraved; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, mounted as worn from a composite silver buckle, very fine (5) £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Provenance: DNW, September 2002.

Sydney Crohan Millett was commissioned into the 23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot as an Ensign on 16 June 1854 and was promoted Lieutenant on 21 September of the same year and Captain a year later on 30 November 1855. Serving in the Crimean War, he was severely wounded during the second assault upon the Redan, 8 September 1855, his left arm being broken. For his services he was awarded the Turkish Order of Medjidie and Sardinian Al Valore Militare. Promoted Major on 1 September 1869, he served in the Ashantee War of 1873-74 with his regiment and received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 April 1874. He died in Gibraltar on 3 August 1879, whilst in temporary command of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.