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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 570

Pair: Lieutenant Colonel R.W. Lacy, 56th Regiment Crimea, one clasp, Sebastopol (Lt Colonel . Walter Lacy.56th Regt), contemporarily engraved in large serif capitals; Turkish Crimea, British die, with contemporary claw and silver swivel bar suspension, unnamed, good very fine (2) Estimate £ 280-320 Lieutenant General Richard Walter Lacy entered the 84th Regiment as Ensign 1832 and transferred to the 56th Regiment in 1837; advanced to Major, July 1855 and disembarked in the Crimea with his Regiment 25.8.1855; was present at the siege of Sebastopol and took part in the final assault; Lieutenant Colonel, May 1856; Colonel, May 1861 and rose to Lieutenant General 29.9.1878; commanded the 56th from May 1856-69.

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