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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 154

Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol (G. Smith. 7th. Regt.), officially impressed, worn, nearly very fine, housed in a presentation red leather booklet, the cover embossed ´George Smith, 7th. Royal Fusiliers´ Estimate £ 120-150 3366 Private George Smith, born Ecchinswell, Newbury, Berkshire, 1836; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, May 1854, and served with the Regiment in the Crimea from November 1854; disabled by amputation of the right leg below the knee after a shell wound in the foot and ankle in the trenches before Sebastopol, 13.6.1855; wounded again on the same day on the back of the right thigh and the inside of the left leg by a piece of shell; discharged as a result of his wounds, November 1855, after 1 year and 141 days with the Colours.

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