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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 995

Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol, loose on riband (Lieut. F.K. Kirby, 93rd Highlanders), officially impressed, toned, minor edge bruising, otherwise extremely fine, with photographic image of recipient Estimate £ 280-320 Lieutenant Franklin Knight Kirby; commissioned Ensign 93rd Highlanders June 1854, and promoted Lieutenant in November of the same year; died of disease 16.2.1855, ´During the Winter, several officers joined the regiment with drafts from England. One of these, Ensign Kirby, a young, delicate-looking lad remarked to me at our first meeting, ´This is a terrible place, and I fear that I have come out here only to lay my bones here.´ He evidently spoke quite seriously; and I could not help feeling that he would not be able to endure the hardships and privations to which he would necessarily be exposed. Poor Young Fellow! he died of fever within a couple of months after arrival, and he lies at rest in the valley of Kadikoi near the very spot on which he was standing when we first met him´ (Reminiscences of Military Service with 93rd Surgeon General Munro, refers). He is commemorated at St. Peters Church, Leckhampton.

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