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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 165

Four: Deputy Surgeon General W. Perry, Royal Artillery and Army Medical Department
Crimea 1854-56, three clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol, last clasp loose on riband, as issued (Surgeon Perry Royal Artillery), lightly contemporarily engraved in large serif capitals; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast Badge, 69mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 49mm, silver, gold applique, and enamel, suspension altered; Italy, Sardinia, Al Valore Militare, silver, reverse officially engraved 'Staff Surgeon Wm. Perry. Rl. Artry.'; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, unnamed, pierced as issued, generally very fine, all with contemporary silver riband buckles, together with a portrait photograph of the recipient (4)

Deputy Surgeon General William Perry, Commissioned Assistant Surgeon, Ordnance Medical Department, October 1849; served with the Royal Artillery in the Crimea, and present at the Battles of Alma and Inkermann, the Siege and fall of Sebastopol, and the sortie on the 26th October 1854; promoted Surgeon, July 1855; Surgeon-Major, September 1869; retired with the rank of Honorary Deputy Surgeon General, October 1879.

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£2,400