The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord

The mounted group of five miniature dress medals attributed to Colonel Sir Lumley Graham, Bt., 19th Foot, late 41st and 43rd Regiments, who served as A.D.C. to Major-General Eyre in the Crimea, where he was severely wounded before Sebastopol and suffered the loss of his right arm

South Africa 1834-53, a contemporary struck piece, the disc set into a separate mount; Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol, slide-on clasps on single side-carriages; France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, 5th Class, silver, gold and enamel; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, silver, gold and enamel; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, mounted for wear from a gold brooch bar, the French piece with slight enamel damage, central medallion re-affixed on the Medjidieh, good very fine (5) £340-380

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Provenance: Derek Robinson Collection, DNW, April 2003; and December 2014 (when sold alongside his full-size awards)

Sir Lumley Graham was born in 1828, the son of Sir Sanford Graham, Bt., of Kirkstall, Yorkshire, a contemporary of Lord Byron who travelled in Greece before entering politics. Appointed an Ensign in the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot in August 1847, Lumley obtained his Lieutenancy in February 1851, and witnessed active service in the Third Kaffir War 1851-53. Advanced to Captain in June 1854, he next served in the Crimea 1854-55 in the 41st Regiment, part of the time as A.D.C. to Major-General Eyre, including the battles of Alma and Inkermann, and the siege of Sebastopol, at which latter place he was severely wounded on 29 August 1855, necessitating the amputation of his right arm. He had meanwhile been advanced to Major, and was also appointed a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour and to the 5th Class of the Turkish Order of Medjidie. Having then attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1856, he inherited the Baronetcy in 1874, and returned to Kirkstall to run the family estate. Sir Lumley died in 1890.