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27 July 2022

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№ 260

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27 July 2022

Hammer Price:
£160

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (66. Co. Wm. Whitingham. R.M. H.M.S. Sidon.) contemporarily engraved in large sloping serif capitals, very fine £160-£200

William Whitingham (also recorded as Whittingham) entered the Royal Marines on 28 October 1842 and served in H.M.S. Sidon from 2 December 1852 to 30 July 1856. He was discharged on 19 January 1864, after 21 years and 84 days’ service.

Sold with copied record of service and discharge papers.