Four: Colour-Sergeant J. Thompson, 49th Regiment of Foot

China 1842 (John Thompson, 49th Regiment Foot.) original suspension; Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Colr. Serjt. J. Thompson 49th Regt.) regimentally engraved naming; France, Second Empire, Medaille Militaire, silver-gilt and enamel, badly chipped; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, fitted with Crimea suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine or better (4) £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Royal Berkshire Collection.

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Medaille Militaire: ‘Colour-Sergeant John Thompson, joined his regiment in the field at Inkermann, having marched that morning, on hearing the firing, from Balaklava, where he had been on detached regimental duty; constantly at his duty in the trenches during the siege; in both attacks on the Redan on the 18th of June, and the 8th of September, 1855.’