Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (William Banks. 4th. Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming, contact marks and minor edge bruising, very fine £200-£240

William Banks was born in Marylebone, London, on July 1821, and attested for the 4th Regiment of Foot at Rochester, Kent, on 26 July 1839. He served with the Regiment in the Crimea, and reported sick with fever on 15 November 1854, the day following the severe storm, and was admitted to the General Hospital at Balaclava. In January 1855 he was invalided from Balaclava to Scutari, and on 5 April transferred to Malta to the Reserve. He was medically discharged at Chatham on 26 August 1856, after 16 years and 321 days’ service.

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