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

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Thos. Cox. 46th. Regt.) officially impressed naming, about extremely fine and a rare 4-clasp award to the 46th Foot £800-£1,000

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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Only a detachment of the Regiment, 6 Officers and 225 men, made up of Sir George Cathcart’s Honour Guard and two companies of the Advance Party, were present at the Battle of Alma, 20 September 1854, and the subsequent actions at Balaklava and Inkermann.

Thomas Cox was born at Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, and attested for the 46th Regiment of Foot at Kilkenny on 4 March 1854, aged 21. He served with the Regiment in the Crimea as a member of the advance party of two companies of the 46th Regiment, under the command of Captains Hardy and O'Toole, before going sick to Scutari in December 1854, and died at Scutari on 10 March 1855.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts and muster lists.