Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (2310 Drur. Joh. Stephens 46th. Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming, very fine £260-£300

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 the Alma on 20 September 1854, and the subsequent actions at Balaklava and Inkermann.

Joseph Stevens (note surname) attested for the 46th Regiment of Foot at Yeovil and is confirmed by WO/100/29 as entitled to the Crimea Medal with four clasps. He appears on the muster roll at Guernsey from April to June 1847, followed by postings to Dover, Liverpool and Chester from 1848 to 1850. Recorded as absent without leave from 18 to 19 August 1849, he transferred as Guard in Liverpool to barracks in Bradford and Leeds. Appointed Drummer at Preston on 22 September 1851, Stevens joined a detachment to Armagh and received his first good conduct pay at Wexford on 21 October 1853.

Stevens sailed with the two Advance Companies for the Crimea, and landed at Calamita Bay on 14 September 1854. He survived considerable active service in the Crimea and later travelled with the Regiment to Corfu in April 1856. Transferred to Mooltan, Jullundur, Camp Malaoms, Cawnpore and Shahjehanpore, he died on 5 October 1864 at Inynes Tal in northern India.