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Auction: 22075 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 86

Pair: Sapper B. George, Royal Engineers

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Benjamin. George. 164. Royal. Engineers); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Sapper Benjn George, Royal Engrs), first with Regimentally Impressed naming, wire fixing between top two clasps, about very fine (2)

Benjamin George, of Bungay in Suffolk, served with the 4th Company Royal Engineers during the Indian Mutiny and in the operations before Lucknow; the Crimea Medal Roll notes entitlement to clasps for the Alma and Inkermann, with Sebastopol unconfirmed. George appears to have been discharged from service in 1860.

Purchased Glendining's, July 1946, for £3/0/0 as part of a larger Lot.

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Sold for
£1,300