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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 57

The Group of Three to Captain H.A. Palmer, 62nd Foot, Wounded and Taken Prisoner of War at the Attack on the Grand Redan, 8.9.1855 Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol (H.A. Palmer. Lieut. 62nd. Regt. Sept.8.1855.), contemporarily engraved in large sans serif capitals; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast Badge, 66m including Star and Crescent suspension x 47mm, silver, gold applique, and enamel, suspension re-affixed, reverse plate engraved ´H.A. Palmer. Lieut. 62nd. Regt. Sept.8.1855.´; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die (H.A. Palmer. Lieut. 62nd. Regt. Sept.8.1855), engraved in sans serif capitals, plugged, with ring suspension, nearly very fine, all with contemporary silver top riband buckles, together with the Bestowal Document for the Turkish Order of the Medjidieh (3) Estimate £ 600-800 Captain Herrick Augustus Palmer, Commissioned Ensign, 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot, January 1854; promoted Lieutenant, December 1854; served with the Regiment in the Crimea, and present at the Siege of Sebastopol; wounded and taken Prisoner-of War at the attack on the Redan, 8.9.1855 (Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 5.10.1855); Awarded the Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh, 5th Class; Captain, May 1857; retired, 1861.

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£1,300