Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (R. Downes. Driver. Rl. Horse Arty.) officially impressed naming, polished, minor edge bruising, nearly very fine £300-£400

Sold with copied medal roll extracts that lists a ‘2175 Driver Robert Downes’ as being entitled to the Inkermann clasp, and a ‘2175 Driver George Downs [sic]’ as being entitled to the Sebastopol clasp, the latter roll annotated ‘died 18 June 1855’. However, Down(e)s is not listed on the casualty list for the first assault on the Grand Redan, and so the date of his death, likely from disease, is presumably mere coincidence.