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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 267

Pair: Troop Sergeant-Major W. Broomfield, 8th Hussars

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Tp.-Sjt.-Mjr. W. Broomfield, 8th Hussrs.), officially impressed naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Tp. Sgt. Major Wm. Broomfield, 8th Hussars), good very fine (2)


PROVENANCE:
Ex Glendining's 25 September 1963, when sold with an engraved Turkish Crimea Medal; sold with further details regarding previous provenance.

William Bloomfield enlisted in the 8th Hussars at Ballincollig, Co. Cork in August 1848, aged 17 years. His father was serving as a Troop Sergeant-Major in the regiment at the time and likely secured his son his opening appointment as Paymaster's Clerk.

Young William was subsequently reduced to Private on the eve of the regiment's departure for the Crimea in April 1854 and was present at Alma and Inkermann, and in operations before Sebastopol (Medal & 3 clasps). In the summer of 1855 he was appointed a Probationary Orderly Room Clerk and before the year was out he had been promoted to the Troop Sergeant-Major (as Orderly Room Clerk).

Present with his regiment in the Indian Mutiny, when he served in Central India under General Sir Hugh Rose and took part in the Kotah operations, he purchased his discharge in December 1859.


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£1,200