Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant N. Flannagan, 93rd Highlanders, who was wounded at the Battle of the Alma, 20 September 1854, and again at Cawnpore, 6 December 1857

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Alma, Sebastopol (Serjt. N. ...nnagan 93 Sutherland ...nders) very lightly contemporarily engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Sergt. Neil Flannagan, 93rd. Highlanders); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, plugged and fitted with a small loop and ring suspension, contact marks, which has obscured the naming at 3 and 9 o’clock on first, nearly very fine (3) £600-£800

Neil Flannagan was born in Greenock, Renfrewshire, in 1829, and attested for the 93rd (Sutherland) Highlanders at Kilmarnock on 17 February 1847. He served with the Regiment in the Crimea, was promoted Corporal on 13 September 1854, and was severely wounded in the arm a week later at the Battle of the Alma, on 20 September 1854. Recovering, he was promoted Sergeant on 11 November 1856, and proceeded with his Regiment to India, for service during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, where he was again wounded in the right arm on at the battle of Sonbador’s Tank, Cawnpore, on 6 December 1857. He was discharged on 9 September 1861, after 13 years and 277 days’ service.

Sold with copied discharge papers, medal roll extracts, and other research.