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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 165

Three: Captain J. Lawrence, 23rd Regiment (Royal Welsh Fusiliers), who later became High Sherriff of Monmouthshire

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Lieut. John Lawrence 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers), contemporarily engraved naming in serifed capitals; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Lieut. John Lawrence, 1st Bn. 23rd R. W. Fusrs.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British die, with replacement silver swivel suspension, very fine (3)

John Lawrence was born in 1807, the second son of John Lawrence of Cwmbran House, Monmouthshire. He was commissioned Ensign on 28 November 1854 and advanced Lieutenant on 9 March 1855, proceeding to the Crimea on 4 May 1855. Indeed the Letters of B. T. Griffiths mention Lawrence several times. Purchasing his Captaincy on 29 October 1859 he retired on the sale of his commission in 1862.

Lawrence became High Sherriff of Monmouthshire in 1869, with the Regimental History recording that he entertained the officers to a banquet and presented them with an inscribed silver kettle.


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£450