Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, no clasp, unnamed as issued; together with a French, Third Republic, Medaille Militaire, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; and a Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (1782. R. Spearing. 1. B. 14. Foot.) contemporarily engraved naming, suspension ring removed and plugged, replaced with unofficial ring soldered above, contact marks and edge bruising, therefore fine, the MM better (3) £80-£100

Robert Spearing was born in Wookey Somerset in 1826. He attested into the 14th Foot in December 1849 and served in the Crimea for one year and four months during the Crimean War. Discharged in 1859, he returned to Wookey and was later one of three Crimea veterans present at the Wookey Diamond Jubilee celebrations of 1897. He died in 1904.

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