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23 March 2022

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№ 168

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23 March 2022

Hammer Price:
£550

Three: Private A. Crawford, 72nd Highlanders

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (No. 1878 Archibald Crawford, 72d Highlanders) Regimentally engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Arch’d. Crawford, 72nd Highlanders) officially re-impressed; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (No. 1878 Private 72d. Highlanders) Regimentally engraved naming, pierced as issued with small ring suspension, good very fine (3) £400-£500

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 1999.

Archibald Crawford was born in Dalry, Ayrshire, in 1824 and attested for the 72nd Highlanders at Dumfries on 22 May 1844. He served with the Regiment in Gibraltar for 3 years and 2 months; in the West Indies for 3 years and 4 months; in North America for 3 years and 3 months; in Malta for 5 months; in the Crimea for 1 year and 1 month; and in India for 7 years and 2 months. He was discharged, unfit for further service, on 6 June 1865, after 20 years and 353 days’ service.

Sold with copied service papers.