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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 283

(x) China 1857-60, one clasp, Canton 1857 (Capt. Henry Kean. 59th Regt.), naming lightly impressed, very fine

Captain Henry Kean, Commissioned Ensign, 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot, October 1847; promoted Lieutenant, April 1851; Captain, September 1855; served with the Regiment in China, and present at the attack and capture of Canton, 28-29.12.1857, and subsequent operations; commanded a detachment of the Regiment with the Expedition to the White Cloud Mountains, June 1858, and accompanied the Regiment to the Gulf of Pecheli; retired, 1866.

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