Pair: Sergeant E. Humphries, 63rd Regiment of Foot

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Serjt. E. Humphries. 63rd Regt.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Serjt. E. Humphrey [sic] 63. Regt.) contemporarily engraved in the regimental style, plugged and fitted with an IGS-style suspension, mounted court-style for display, contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £240-£280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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Elias Humphries (also recorded as Humphrey) was born at Dartford, Kent, in 1835, and attested for the 63rd Regiment at Newcastle on Tyne on 4 September 1849 at the age of 14. He was appointed Drummer in July 1850 and promoted Corporal in February 1855. He embarked at Cork to join his regiment in the Crimea on 11 March 1855 and was immediately promoted Sergeant on his arrival on 17 June. He was recorded as ill in hospital at Scutari in January 1856 and was invalided to the U.K, and at some point was reduced to Private. He subsequently served in Canada, and while there took his discharge from the 63rd Regiment in order to join the Royal Canadian Rifles on 1 April 1862, being promoted Corporal in October 1864 and Sergeant in September 1867. On the disbandment of the Royal Canadian Rifles in 1870 he transferred to the 1/60th Regiment at Montreal. He returned to the U.K. in May 1871 and was discharged to be a Chelsea Out Pensioner.

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