Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private Charles New, 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade

South Africa 1834-53 (C. New. 1st Bn. Rifle Bde.); Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (C. New. 1st Batn. Rifle Bde.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed, contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £800-1000

Charles New was born in the Parish of Purley, near Reading, Berkshire, and attested for the Rifle Brigade in London on 19 September 1844, aged 22. He served abroad at the Cape of Good Hope, 2 years 8 months, including the Kaffir War of 1852-53 (Medal); and in the Crimea, 1 year 10 months, present at the battles of Alma and Inkermann, served at Siege of Sebastopol (Medal & 3 Clasps and Turkish Medal). He was discharged at Dublin on 22 October 1861, his being unfit for further service. Sold with copied discharge papers.