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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 201

Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol (Wm.H. Crompton Lieut. 42nd. Royal Highlanders. July 1855.), contemporarily engraved in upright serif capitals, heavy contact marks, nearly very fine

Major-General William Henry Crompton-Stansfield, born William Henry Crompton, August 1836, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Joshua Crompton, and a great-nephew of Robert Burns, the poet; Commissioned Ensign, 42nd Royal Highlanders, August 1854; promoted Lieutenant, February 1855; served with the Regiment in the Crimea from July 1855; promoted Captain, November 1856; transferred to the 11th Foot, January 1858; promoted Major, August 1870; Lieutenant-Colonel, July 1871; changed his name by Royal Licence to Crompton-Stansfield, May 1872; promoted Colonel, July 1876; retired with the rank of Major-General, March 1882; appointed to Command the West Yorkshire Infantry Volunteer Brigade, July 1888; died, Skipton, Yorkshire, September 1888.

Provenance: Huxstep Collection 1994

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