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14 April 2021

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№ 546

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14 April 2021

Hammer Price:
£360

Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (Qr. Mr. J. Leahy. 4th. Regt.) officially impressed naming, light scratches to rank, generally very fine and a scarce casualty to the Regiment £240-£280

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2011.

John Leahy attested for the 4th Regiment of Foot on 23 January 1839 and was appointed Probationary Orderly Room Clerk (with the rank of Sergeant) on 26 July 1840. He was promoted Quartermaster Sergeant on 8 November 1848, and was commissioned as Quartermaster of his regiment on 9 December 1849, having received a glowing testimonial from the Regimental Commanding Officer.

The 4th Foot landed at Old Fort, Calamita Bay, in the Crimea on 14 September 1854. Four days later the Cholera that had been raging through the invading army took the life of Quartermaster Leahy, the first of only three officers of the regiment to lose their lives in the Crimea. He is buried by Lake Tuzla, north of the river Alma. His widow was granted a pension of £36.

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