Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (R. Faith, 11th Hussars), officially impressed naming, contact marks and edge nicks, very fine £200-250

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

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Ex MacKenzie and Needes Collections.

Richard Faith was born at King’s Lynn, Norfolk and enlisted in the 11th Hussars in May 1854. Joining the regiment out in the Crimea as late as May 1855, he is known to have been hospitalised in the same month. He was discharged at Canterbury on his return to the U.K. in the following year.