Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private Isaac Whiting, 7th Foot

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Pte. I. Whiting. 7th Rl. Fuss.) contemporary engraved naming; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (3595. Pte. Isaac Whiting, 1/7 Foot.); Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed, suspension post replaced on first, nearly very fine, otherwise good very fine, the last rare (3) £400-£500

Only 5 ‘North West Frontier’ clasps issued to the 7th Foot for the expedition under Brevet Colonel A. F. Macdonell, C.B., against Sultan Muhammed Khan who attacked the fort of Shabkadar with a body of Mohmands and Bajauris, 5 December 1863 - 2 January 1864. Authorised under G.G.O. 116 and 455 of 1884.

Isaac Whiting was born in the Parish of Sheatley, near Reading, Berkhsire, and enlisted at Reading for the 7th Foot on 7 October 1854, aged 17 years 6 months. He served for just two months in the Crimea and for 8 years 11 months in the East Indies. He was discharged at Walmer on 28 May 1886, ‘being prevented by disability from re-engaging’.

Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.