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Three: Sergeant E. Hammond, Royal Navy, later Royal Welsh Fusiliers Crimea 1854-56, 2 cop...
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Three: Sergeant E. Hammond, Royal Navy, later Royal Welsh Fusiliers Crimea 1854-56, 2 copy clasps, Sebastopol, Azoff, copy clasps both loose on riband, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1810 Sergt. E. Hammond, 1-23rd Foot); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, pierced as issued with small ring suspension, slight abrasions to obverse of first, generally very fine (3) £260-£300 --- Provenance: Llewellyn Lord Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2016 (LS&GC only, when erroneously paired with an India General Service Medal). Edward Hammond was born in Tonbridge, Kent, in 1833 and joined the Royal Navy, serving in H.M.S. Agamemnon during the Crimea War. The award of the Azoff clasp not clear from roll but is recorded in the papers. He joined the 17th Regiment of Foot on 31 January 1859 aged 26, and transferred as a Sergeant to the 23rd Regiment of Foot in January 1870. He is shown as Sergeant Master Cook in the Army Worldwide Index of 1871, and was discharged in July 1880. For the medals awarded to Colour-Sergeant J. T. Hammond, believed to be the recipient’s son, see Lot 319.
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Three: Sergeant E. Hammond, Royal Navy, later Royal Welsh Fusiliers Crimea 1854-56, 2 copy clasps, Sebastopol, Azoff, copy clasps both loose on riband, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1810 Sergt. E. Hammond, 1-23rd Foot); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, pierced as issued with small ring suspension, slight abrasions to obverse of first, generally very fine (3) £260-£300 --- Provenance: Llewellyn Lord Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2016 (LS&GC only, when erroneously paired with an India General Service Medal). Edward Hammond was born in Tonbridge, Kent, in 1833 and joined the Royal Navy, serving in H.M.S. Agamemnon during the Crimea War. The award of the Azoff clasp not clear from roll but is recorded in the papers. He joined the 17th Regiment of Foot on 31 January 1859 aged 26, and transferred as a Sergeant to the 23rd Regiment of Foot in January 1870. He is shown as Sergeant Master Cook in the Army Worldwide Index of 1871, and was discharged in July 1880. For the medals awarded to Colour-Sergeant J. T. Hammond, believed to be the recipient’s son, see Lot 319.
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