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Lot

№ 729

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11 May 2017

Hammer Price:
£120

Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (Lieutt. R. D. Templeman. 62d. Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming, pierced with ring suspension as issued, good very fine £140-180

Richard Draper Templeman was born in 1832, the son of Rev. Richard Abraham Templeman, of Crewkerne, Somerset, and was educated at St John’s College, Oxford. Commissioned Ensign, by purchase, in the 62nd Foot in 1853, he served with the Regiment in the Crimea, and is recorded in the 1857 Army List as a ‘casualty’. The London Daily News reports that on 12 August 1855, Templeman was granted leave of absence on recommendation of the medical board and was ‘to remain on board ship’. The London Morning Post reports that Templeman was given an extension to leave of absence on medical certificate from 25 July to 8 August 1856. The London Daily News further reports that on 26 August 1855, Templeman was granted leave of absence, to proceed to England and report to the Adjutant General.
Templeman retired in December 1855, and died at Hastings, Sussex, on 19 March 1860.
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Dorset County Chronicle, 29 March 1860, reports: ‘Captain Templeman.- announces the death on the 19th ult. at Hastings, of Richard Draper Templeman, Esq. late of the 62nd Regiment, and son of the late Revd. R. A. Templeman, of Merriott, Somersetshire. The deceased who was only 26 years at his death, was for some period in Jersey, and inmate of what is popularly denominated “the Gloucester Hotel” at the time when the same place had for a lodger the late Mr Bankes. They were both well known in the Island. Both inherited handsome fortunes which did not save them from difficulties, and which probably conduced to their premature decease.”