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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 148

The campaign group of three awarded General F. W. Hastings, Royal Artillery, who Commanded No. 8 Company, 6th Battalion at Sebastopol and was later General Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery in 1904, when he was made a C.B. in the Jubilee Celebrations

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Capt T. W. Hastings, R.A.) depot impressed naming, lugs removed; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidie, 5th Class breast Badge, silver, gold and enamel; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, plugged suspension, fitted with replacement claw and ring suspension, very fine (3)

[C.B.] London Gazette 24 June 1904.

Francis William Hastings was born at Glasgow on 17 June 1825 and after service in the Cadet Company, was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Artillery on 17 June 1843. Serving in Malta, he was promoted Lieutenant 5 April 1845 and Second Captain on 24 July 1851. He was posted to Canada in 1852 and Barbados in late 1853. Then served as Adjutant from 22 February 1854 and was back on home service in May 1854. Hastings was promoted to Captain on 1 April 1855 to Command No. 8 Company (previous 10 Company), 6th Battalion Royal Artillery, taking this company to the Crimea in May 1855. He arrived on 28 May 1855, his Company was posted to the Left Attack and took part in the siege and fall of Sebastopol. For his services he was Promoted Major on 2 November 1855. Hastings served in the Crimea until 22 July 1856, his Army List entry giving the following details of his services during the Crimean War:

'General F. W. Hastings served in the Crimean campaign from May 1855, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol, in the Trenches with the siege train, and at the bombardments of 6th and 17th June (Brevert of Major, Medal with Clasp, 5th Class of the Medjidie, and Turkish Medal).'

Between 1858-65, Hastings saw service in India, in 1858 being noted as commanding Officer, No. 6 Company, 7th Battalion. Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 5 June 1865, he was made Colonel on 5 June 1870 (noted as Commandant School of Gunnery in 1877), Major-General on 1 October 1882 and Lieutenant-General on 5 July 1886. He retired on 1 October 1887 with the honorary rank of General but on 16 September 1893 was appointed Colonel-Commandant Royal Artillery.

He was made C.B. in June 1904, together with 6 other surviving Officers upon the Jubilee of the Crimean War. Hastings died on 24 August 1914.

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