Auction Catalogue

22 July 2015

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 181

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22 July 2015

Hammer Price:
£200

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (M. Toman, 46th Regt.) officially impressed naming, slight edge bruising, very fine £200-240

Michael Toman was born in Loughinisland, Co. Down. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the 46th Regiment on 20 September 1852. He landed with the main body of the regiment in the Crimea on 8 November 1854. Listed as sick at Scutari on 14 December 1854; dying there on 17 December 1854, probably of dysentery.