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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 147

Four: Lieutenant-General G. T. Field, Royal Artillery who served as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster Generalduring the Crimean War

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Major George. T. Field. Rl. Arty); France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, breast Badge, gold, silver and enamel; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidie, breast Badge; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue very fine (4)

M.I.D. London Gazette 2 November 1855.

George Thomas Field was born on 17 March 1824, and received his commission on 11 January 1843. He served in Jamaica between 1844-46 and then went to serve in Canada from April-December 1851. Returned home, he became Adjutant of the Royal Artillery between 1851-54. He served in the Crimean War between April 1854-June 1856, taking part in the siege and fall of Sebastopol, and in the expedition in Kertch and was awarded the Medal and clasp and with the rank of brevet Major, served as Deputy Assistant and Acting Quartermaster General in the Crimea. On his return from the Crimea he seved as D.A.Q.M.G. at Woolwich between 1860-63. Then Second Commandant and Inspector at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst between 1866-70, then Superintendent R.C.D. 1871-76 and finally served on the Staff of the Royal Artillery between 1877-80 where he was Colonel Commanding the Royal Artillery of the Northern District. Field died on 30 August 1889.

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