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Auction: 23002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 36

Pair: Private T. Petchley, Rifle Brigade, who was wounded by a musket ball at the Battle of Inkermann

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (**e Thos Petchley 1st Bat** Bge), engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British die top lugs removed from the top bar, contact marks to both, otherwise very fine (2)

Thomas Petchley was born at Farham, Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire and attested for the 60th Regiment of Rifles at Westminster on 25 January 1853, aged 21. He embarked on 13 July 1854 served with the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade at Inkermann he was severely wounded on the outside of his right arm by a musket ball at the Battle of Inkerman on the 5th November 1854. He was evacuated four days later to Scutari for treatment in the General Hospital. He was invalided back to England on the 15 May 1855 and after a 22-day voyage he rejoined the Depot Companies of the 1st Rifle Brigade at Portsmouth and was almost immediately granted a furlough as an invalid. Whilst on leave, the Depot Companies of the 1st Rifle Brigade moved from Portsmouth to Aldershot. The Regimental Medical Officer reviewed his case on the 29 November 1855 and considered him unfit for service as he was unable to carry his rifle. Following his Regimental Board he was sent to the Invalid Depot at Chatham, Kent for discharge proceedings, he was finally discharged on 22 January 1856.

He later joined the Corps of Commissionaires and in the Rifle Brigade Chronicle of 1947 it states he was the first Rifleman to join the Corps and served as a commissionaire for 29 years and died in 1912, aged 80.

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