Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (C. Remnants, 1st Rl. Dragns.), officially impressed naming, copy clasp, edge bruising and contact marks, fine £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Darwent.

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Charles Remnants was, according to his discharge papers, born in Manchester, and enlisted in the 1st Royal Dragoons in February 1855. In his subsequent career of some 21 years with the Colours, he served for 11 months in the Crimea, gaining the Medal and ‘Sebastopol’ clasp, in addition to the Turkish Medal, and attained the rank of Farrier-Sergeant. He was discharged in June 1876, giving his intended place of residence as Stockton-on-Tees, and appears in the 1881 census as a farrier resident at the town’s Castle Gate, but stating his place of birth as Weymouth, Dorset.