Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Charles Forster. 23rd. Regt.) officially impressed naming, minor edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £300-£400

Charles Forster was born in the Parish of Catton, Norfolk, and enlisted in the 23rd Regiment of Foot as Private on 8 August 1843. Posted overseas to Canada in March 1844, he served with the Regiment at Toronto and Montreal before embarking home to England on 1 July 1853. Deployed to the Crimea per S.S. Trent in April 1854, the Regiment was heavily engaged at Alma, Inkermann and Sebastopol, losing 754 officers and men to the Russian guns and disease; evacuated sick from the battlefield 14 December 1854, Forster died aboard ship whilst enroute to hospital in Scutari.

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