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Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Sergt. Richrd. Lowrey 23rd. Regt. R.W.F.) contemporarily re-engraved naming, heavy contact marks which has partially obscured naming, polished and worn, fair £160-£200

Richard Lowrey (also recorded as Lowry) was born in Newry, Armagh, Ireland, on 10 March 1825, and attested for the 37th Regiment of Foot at Manchester on 10 March 1842. He transferred to the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 1 March 1843. In the 1851 census he is shown as a Sergeant stationed at Plymouth, but he was reduced to Corporal in a subsequent court martial (he was court martialled four times over his career, mainly for drunkenness). He served with the Regiment in the Crimea for one year and 11 months, and was severely wounded by a musket ball to his thigh on 10 May 1855. He was discharged, no longer fit for duty, on 21 April 1857 after 13 years and 316 days’ service, including 6 years and 11 months abroad (West Indies 3 years 7 months; North America 1 year 5 months; and Turkey and the Crimea 1 year 11 months).

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