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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 171

Four: Armourer Sergeant E. Smiles, 23rd Regiment (Royal Welsh Fusiliers)

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (No. 4156. Armr. Serjt. Edwin. Smiles. 23rd Regt. R.W.F.), regimentally impressed naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Lucknow, Relief of Lucknow (4156. Ar. Serjt. Edwn. Smiles, 1st Bn. 23rd R. W. Fusrs.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (4156. Sergt. E. Smiles. 1st Bn. 23rd Regt.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian die, with replaced 'Crimea' suspension, the second with number and 'Ar.' additionally impressed, very fine (4)

Edwin Smiles was born at Enfield, Middlesex in 1827 and having served as an Armourer Sergeant with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in the Crimea and during the Indian Mutiny, worked as a warehouseman in Beckenham by 1881.

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