Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Major C. F. Kelly, 18th Royal Irish Regiment

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Lieut., 18th Royal Irish Regt.); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Capt., 18th Rl. Irish Regt.), engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue unnamed, ornate scroll suspension, slight edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (3) £500-600

Charles Frederick Kelly was commissioned an Ensign in the 18th Regiment on 2 April 1843 and was promoted to Lieutenant on 5 February 1847. Lieutenant Kelly served with the regiment in the expedition under General D’Aguilar in April 1847, also the latter part of the Burmese War, and was present at the night attack on the heights at Prome in January 1853. Promoted to Captain on 4 August 1854, he served at the siege of Sebastopol from December 1854. He attained the rank of Major on 14 December 1860. Sold with copied research and a copied group photograph which includes the recipient.