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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 418

The miniature dress Crimea Medal named to Captain E. A. Stotherd, 60th Foot, late 93rd Highlanders, a member of 'The Thin Red Line'

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Lt. E. A. Stotherd. 93rd Highrs.), contemporarily engraved naming, very fine, with top riband buckle

Edward Augustus Stotherd was appointed Ensign in the 93rd Foot in February 1851. He served with the Regiment in the Crimean campaign (Medal & 3 clasps) before transferring to the 60th Foot. Stotherd was tragically drowned in the wreck of the Anglo Saxon off Cape Race, Newfoundland on 27 April 1863, aged 30.

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Sold for
£320