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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 100

A Superb and Rare Combination of Campaign Medals to Major The Honorable B.R. Pellew, Rifle Brigade, Late 43rd Foot South Africa 1834-53 (Ensign Hon. R.P. [sic] Pellew, 43rd Regt); Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed; China 1856-60, one clasp, Canton 1857, (Captn. The Honle. B.R. Pellew A.D.C,); Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Capt. Hon. B.R. Pellew, 2nd Bn. Rifle Bde.) Turkey, Order of Medjidieh, 5th Class breast Badge, gold, silver and enamel, minor red enamel damage to the Order, the group good very fine or better, first two campaign medals mounted as originally worn, on Hunt & Roskell double silver riband buckle bar with gold retaining pin (5) Estimate £ 2,400-2,800 Major The Honorable Barrington Reynolds Pellew, 5th son of Second Viscount Exmouth; born 1833; entered 43rd Foot, Ensign 1850; served in the Kaffir War 1851-52; Lieutenant Rifle Brigade, 1853; Captain 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, 1854; served in the Crimea and was wounded in the attack on the Redan 8.9.1855 (Order of Medjidieh London Gazette 3.3.1858); present at the storming of Canton (1857), Aide de Camp to General C. Van Straubenzee; Major 1858; Major The Honorable B.R. Pellew died at Lucknow 6.12.1858. (Burke´s Peerage, Baronetage, & Knightage 1908 refers)

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