Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel H. Thornhill, Royal Artillery

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Henry Thornhill, Lieut., R.A.), engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, erased naming, fitted with swivel ring suspension, edge bruising, contact marks, good fine and better (2) £200-240

Henry Thornhill, 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 17 December 1851; Lieutenant, 17 February 1854; Captain, 1 April 1859; Major, 5 July 1872; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 October 1877. Present at the siege and fall of Sebastopol and the bombardment of 6 June.