Auction Catalogue

2 March 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 757

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£620

Pair: Private G. Staywell, 13th (Somerset) Light Infantry, who was killed in action in the Indian Mutiny

Crimea 1854-56
, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (3023,13th P.A. Lt. Infy.), contemporary engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (1st Bn. 13th Lt. Infy.), the first with clasp loose on riband and edge bruising, and the second with entirely official but somewhat ‘double-stamped’ impressed naming, very fine and better (2) £400-500

George Staywell was killed in action at the battle of Azimghur on 6 April 1858.