Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Assistant Superintendent of Stores H. H. R. Hewitt

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Balaklava, Sebastopol (H. H. R. Hewitt, D.A. Comy. Field Train R.A.) Hunt & Roskell engraved naming; China 1857-60, no clasp (Asst. Supt. of Stores H. H. R. Hewitt) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, contemporary tailor’s copy by ‘J.B.’ (H. H. R. Hewitt, D.A. Comy. Field Train R.A.) engraved naming, with matching silver ribbon buckles, last with edge bruise, slight contact marks elsewhere, very fine (3) £500-£700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Simon C. Marriage Collection of Medals to the Artillery.

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Henry Horatio Rathbone Hewitt served in the Storekeepers Department and was appointed a Clerk on 23 June 1851. He joined as Deputy Assistant Commissary in the Field Train Department R.A. on 1 April 1854. During the Crimea War of 1854-56, he served in the expedition to Kertch in June 1855 - for his services he was awarded prize money of £24. He rejoined the Storekeepers Department in Woolwich in August 1856 and was later with the Military Store Department. He later served as Assistant Superintendent of Stores in the China Campaign of 1857-60. Hewitt was appointed Commissary with the military rank of Major in August 1870, and Assistant Controller with the military rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in October 1873.

Sold with copied roll extracts and other research.