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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 421

The pair of miniature dress medals named to Major F. J. S. Lindesay, 3rd Dragoons, late 4th Dragoons and 17th Foot

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Frederick John Sandys Lindesay); Turkish Crimea (Frederick John Sandys Lindesay), both attractively engraved in contemporary 'old english' style, very fine, mounted as individually worn upon silver with gold retaining pin, Hunt & Roskell claw buckles (2)

Frederick John Sandys Lindesay was born in June 1828 in County Tyrone, second son of the High Sheriff, Frederick Lindesay and a grandson of Sir Edwin Bayntun Sandys Bt. His mother was the joint heiress of the family estate, which included Miserden Park, Gloucestershire, and Hadlington Hall, Oxfordshire. Lindesay purchased his Ensigncy in the the 17th Foot in March 1848 and served in the rank of Captain with the Regiment during the Crimea campaign (Medal & clasp). Subsequently serving with the 3rd and 4th Dragoons, he retired home to Ireland by sale of his commission in July 1873 and died in 1877; sold with copied research.

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