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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 163

Three: Gunner A.W. Barrett, Royal Artillery
Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol (A.W. Barrett. Gunner & Driver Royal Artillery.), contemporarily engraved in large serif capitals, suspension claw tightened; China 1857-60, two clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Gunr. A.W. Barrett, No.6 B. 12th. Bde. R. Art.), Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, unnamed as issued, plugged, with contemporary silver ball and ring suspension, heavy contact marks, otherwise very fine (3)

Gunner Arthur William Barrett, served with the 1st (Seige) Battery Royal Artillery in the Crimea from 1855, and present at the bombardment, seige, and fall of Sebastopol; served with the 6th Battery, 12th Brigade in China in the action of the 21st August 1860 and the advance on Pekin.

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