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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 360

(x) Crimea 1854-56, three clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol, first clasp snapped, unofficial rivets between second and third clasp (Pte. S. Magson. 55th. Foot.), contemporarily engraved in large serif capitals, naming rubbed in places, contact marks, nearly very fine

2336 Private Saul Magson, born Warley, West Yorkshire, 1827; enlisted in the 51st Light Infantry, September 1845; transferred to the 55th Foot, December 1845; served with the Regiment in the Crimea, and 'wounded on the 7th June [1855] at the Quarries by a musket ball which ran along the penis on its right side, passed through the scrotum, and entered the right thigh and lodged at the point of the right hip, from whence it was cut out.' (Service papers refer); subsequently 'wounded by musket ball on the 8th September [1855] at the Second Attack on the Redan, leading to amputation of middle finger of left hand ' (ibid); discharged, January 1856, after 10 years and 96 days with the Colours.

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