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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 996

Crimea 1854-56, two clasps, Alma, Sebastopol (Lieut. F.B. Davies. 3rd Bn. Gr. Gds.), officially impressed, minor edge nicks, otherwise extremely fine, with contemporary silver riband bar by T.B. Bailey, Coventry Estimate £ 500-600 Lieutenant Francis Brian Davies, the eldest son of Major-General Davies, commissioned Ensign and Lieutenant, 19.12.1851, was wounded in the trenches before Sebastopol, 19.10.1854, and died aged 19 years as a consequence of those wounds aboard H.M.S. Simoom, 10.11.1854. See Lot 712 for his brother´s medals.

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