A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units

Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue ((\\) 3464 Serjt. W. Hampton. 46th. Regt. (//)) contemporarily engraved naming, plugged and fitted with a Crimea-style suspension, pawn-broker’s mark to edge after naming, minor edge bruise, very fine £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units.

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W. Hampton attested for the 46th Regiment of Foot and served with them in the Crimea (also entitled to the Crimea Medal with clasp for Sebastopol). His name features in the letters of Lieutenant-Colonel George Frederick Dallas, published in the book ‘Eyewitness in the Crimea’, edited by Michael Hargreave Mawson.