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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 49

(x) The Crimea Medal awarded to Private D. Carey, 34th Regiment of Foot, who was wounded in the trenches before Sebastopol

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (1994. Daniel. Carey. 34th. Regt.), regimentally impressed naming, light contact marks, very fine

Daniel Carey was born at Dingle, Kerry, Ireland in 1822 and attested into the 34th Foot at Bristol, Somerset on 19 November 1841. Carey served 5 years in the Mediterranean, 3 years in the West Indies and 1 year and 1 month in the Crimea. While there he served as an Orderly aboard a ship at Balaklava, where he suffered a fall and damaged two ribs in January 1855, his medical records note a pulmonary disease resulting from this injury.

Presumably returning to the trenches before Sebastopol upon his recovery Carey was shot in the toe, losing a portion of the digit. The wound was considered insignificant however his pulmonary disease appears to have made him incapable of any form of duty. He was invalided from service and discharged to Chatham on 28 April 1857.

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