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Auction: 24002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 140

Three: Private W. Searle, 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Pte. Wm. Searle 8th Husrs.), contemporary engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Wm. Searle, 8th Hussars); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (No 1289. Pte. Wm. Searle. 8. Hs.), depot impressed naming, fitted with ‘Crimea’ suspension, the last blistered on the reverse, otherwise very fine (3)

William Searle was born at Rockbeare, near Exeter, and enlisted at Exeter into the 8th Hussars on 15 April 1854. He joined the regiment in the Crimea on 14 July 1855, taking part in the siege and fall of Sebastopol. He embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. Great Britain in October 1857, and served at Kotah during the Central India campaign. Searle was discharged ‘time expired’ from Aldershot on 14 April 1866.

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£700

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