SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 302


Edwin Parson died in the Regimental Hospital on 25 September 1854. CRIMEA 1854-56, 2 clasps, Balaklava, Sebastopol (E. Pearson. 42nd Regt.) officially impressed naming, edge bruise,


otherwise good very fine 303 £380-420


John McKenzie died on 11 February 1855. CRIMEA 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (J. McKenzie. 55th Regt.) officially impressed naming, good very fine


£260-300 304


CRIMEA 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (J. McCulloch. 79th Regt.) officially impressed naming, good very fine


£380-420


Rolls confirm 2764 Private James McCulloch for all three clasps. Another man of this name, entitled to Alma and Sebastopol, died 6 October 1854.


305


CRIMEA 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (A. Black. 93rd Regt.) officially impressed naming; together with a 93rd tunic button in excavated condition, claw tightened, contact marks, nearly very fine £1400-1800


Alexander Black served with the 93rd Highlanders in the Crimea, and was present in the ‘Thin Red Line’ at Balaklava on 25 October 1854. He died in the ‘Crimea near Balaklava, 2d January’ 1855.


306


CRIMEA 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Assistant Surgeon T. Clarke. 33rd. Regt.) somewhat rubbed with contemporarily engraved naming, with top silver riband buckle, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps, pawn broker’s mark to reverse, very fine


£300-400


Thomas Clarke was born on 11 December 1832 and having joined the Army Medical Service as an Assistant Surgeon on 7 April 1854 was posted to the 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regiment of Foot on 28 April of that year. He served with the 33rd in the Crimean War, and was present at the Battles of Alma and Inkermann, the siege of Sebastopol, and the assaults on the Grand Redan on 18 June and 8 September 1855, and was one of seven Officers and men of the Regiment awarded the Sardinian War Medal. Promoted Surgeon, Staff on 11 November 1864, he joined the 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot on 9 March 1867, and retired on half pay with the honorary rank of Brigadier on 8 May 1880. He died in London on 23 December 1891.


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The Crimea medal awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel George Carpenter, 41st Regiment, who was killed while gallantly commanding his regiment at the battle of Inkermann on 5 November 1854


CRIMEA 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Lieut. Coln Geoe


naming, nearly extremely fine .


. Carpenter 41st Foot.) contemporary Hunt & Roskell style engraved £1200-1600


George Carpenter was born in London on 12 May 1800. He was commissioned Ensign in the 53rd Regiment on 1 October 1818, becoming Lieutenant on 1 March 1820, but was placed on half-pay in September 1823 on reduction of the regiment. He purchased a company in October 1825 and joined the 41st Regiment as a Captain in July 1829, purchasing the Majority in 1845 and the Lieutenant-Colonelcy in December 1820. He took the regiment to the Crimea, commanded it with distinction at the Alma, and was killed in action at Inkermann. He was struck down at a moment when our troops were losing ground, and remained for some cruel instants in the enemy’s hands, but though presently rescued by the valour of a private soldier named Thomas Beach, he afterwards died of his wounds. Beach also rescued a private of the 41st named Patrick Hartley. For these acts Beach, a 55th man, received the Victoria Cross.


The following biography of Lieutenant-Colonel Carpenter is taken from Memoirs of the Brave, by James Gibson, London 1855:


‘This lamented officer, who fell while gallantly commanding the 41st Regiment at the battle of Inkermann, on the 5th of November, was the only son of General Carpenter, of Great Cumberland Street, Hyde Park. He was in his fifty-fourth year, and had seen considerable service, especially in India, and was twice shipwrecked while in command of troops. Colonel Carpenter met with so severe an accident by a fall from his horse, previous to the starting of the expedition to the Crimea, as might have fairly invalided a less determined soldier. He was able, however, to be the first of his division to cross the Alma, and gallantly to lead his regiment up the heights. At this battle he escaped without a wound, although his horse was shot in two places. He, however, found at the close, that his only son, Lieutenant Carpenter of the 7th Fusiliers, had fallen severely wounded, and had only time to see him taken on board one of the steamers, when the forced march on Balaklava began.


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