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Auction: 25111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 38

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (3597. Charles. Muirhead. 42. Royal. Highlanders), regimentally impressed naming, light contact marks, very fine

Charles Muirhead was a native of Leith and enlisted with the 42nd Highlanders on 6 January 1855

His career is perhaps best summarised by his obituary in The Scotsman:

'Crimea Veteran's Funeral at Leith. - The funeral took place yesterday from his residence at 2Crown Place, Leith of Charles Muirhead, late of the 42nd Highlanders, who died in Leith Hospital on Saturday. He held the Turkish medal, the Indian Mutiny medal (with clasp for Lucknow), and the Crimean medal (with clasp from Sebastopol.) Muirhead, who joined the 42nd when he was nineteen, in 1855, was about sixty-seven years of age, and it was his boast that during the whole of his service - ten years in the regulars and twenty-two years in the reserves- he was never before an officer for bad conduct. He was one of the first draft to proceed to the Crimea. He is survived by a widow, a son and two daughters. Muirhead was a native of the burgh.'

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