Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Surgeon Frederick Le Mesurier, Staff of H.H. Omar Pacha and Acting Inspector-General of Hospitals, Ottoman Army

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Surgeon, Staff of H.H....r Pacha) officially impressed naming partially obscured by suspension claw, fitted with silver ribbon buckle; Turkey, Order of the Medjidie, 5th class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, fitted with silver ribbon buckle; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, pierced and fitted with replacement scroll suspension and silver ribbon buckle, nearly extremely fine and rare (3) £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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Frederick Le Mesurier was born on Guernsey, Channel Islands, in April 1813, son of Lieut-Colonel Haviland Le Mesurier, who died of wounds received when leading his regiment, the 12th Portuguese Infantry, in the battle of the Pyrenees at the end of July 1813. Became a M.R.C.S. in 1835. On becoming a Medical Doctor, Frederick Le Mesurier served with the Army in India as an Assistant Surgeon, from June 1841 until June 1845, when he resigned. During the Crimean War he was attached to the Ottoman Army, on the Staff of H.H. Omar Pacha, as Acting Inspector-General of Hospitals. Prior to joining the Army he was Surgeon at the Town Hospital in Guernsey, and had served four years in the Royal Guernsey Militia. With a folder of copied research; together with an old ornate frame which once contained the medals.