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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 149

Three: Colonel E. J. Carthew, Royal Artillery

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Major Carthew. R.A.) engraved in upright capitals; France, Legion of Honour, Knight's breast Badge, gold, silver and enamel; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidie, 5th Class breast Badge, gold, silver and enamel; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, a privately produced example, contact marks to the first and last, enamel damage to the second and third, generally very fine (4)

French Legion of Honour Edinburgh Gazette 5 August 1856.

Turkish Order of the Medjiedie London Gazette 2 March 1858.

Edmund John Carthew was the youngest son of the late Admiral Carthew of Tredudwell, Cornwall. He became a Gentleman Cadet on 13 November 1843 and was made 2nd Lieutenant on 6 August 1846, Lieutenant on 1 February 1847 and Second Captain, vice Anderson, dated 24 February 1854.

His service in the Crimean War saw him present in the trenches with the siege train before Sebastopol, including the bombardments of 8 April ,6-7 June. Promoted Captain on 22 December 1857, he was made Brevet Major on 8 November 1865, Lieutenant-Colonel vice Brevet-Colonel Du Plat, dated 20 December 1869 and Colonel on 1 October 1877, where he was in Command of the 2nd Brigade of the Royal Artillery. Carthew died after a brief illness with typhoid on 19 February 1878 at the Hotel de la Paix, Rome, Italy.

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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£550

Sale 23003 Notices
Note the Turkish Order contemporarily engraved to the reverse, photographs available upon request