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Auction: 14003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 70

Three: Major-General W.A. Armstrong, Leicestershire Regiment
Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol (Captn. W.A. Armstrong 17th Regt), contemporarily engraved in upright serif capitals; Turkey Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast badge, silver, gold applique and enamel; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, unnamed as issued, pierced for ring suspension, with contemporary ring and straight bar suspension, light pitting throughout, therefore nearly very fine (3)

Major-General William A. Armstrong, born 1824; commissioned Ensign, 17th Regiment, 1840; advanced Major 1855; served with the Regiment in the Crimea, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol, the attacks on the Redan (18th June and 8th September), and also the bombardment and surrender of Kimbourn; appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, 22nd Regiment, 1872; Colonel 1876; retired Major-General, 1883.

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