Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private H. McKeon, 88th Regiment of Foot, who was awarded the French Medaille Militaire as a Sharpshooter before Sebastopol

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Priv. Heny. McKean. 88th. Reg.) engraved naming; France, Second Empire, Medaille Militaire, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel damage and the reverse central medallion replaced with a circular plate; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, plugged and fitted with an elaborate Crescent suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £600-£800

McPeake Collection; Spink, July 1996.

Henry McKeon was born in Galway in 1820 and attested for the 88th Regiment of Foot at Loughrea on 20 April 1837. He served with the Regiment in the Crimea before going sick to Scutari on 2 March 1855, and was awarded the Medaille Militaire as: ‘Sharpshooter. Showed general gallant conduct in the trenches.’ He returned to England on 13 June 1855, and was discharged at Colchester on 30 August 1859.

Sold with copied Muster Roll details; medal roll extract; and other research.