Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. James, 4th Regiment

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (W. James, 4th Regt.) officially impressed naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (W. James, 1st Batn. 4th Regt.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, pierced with ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine and better (3) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Lancaster Regiment.

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William James was born in Shaftsbury, Dorset. He enlisted at Dorchester on 30 December 1851, aged 18 years. Served in the Crimea, 1855-56; Mauritius, July-September 1857; India, 1857-60; Aden, 1860-61. Discharged in England on completing his service on 8 May 1862.

With copied research.