A Crimea War D.C.M. awarded to Private P. Huddleston, 17th Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Peter Huddleston, 17th Regt.), edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £1200-1500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris.

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D.C.M. Recommendation dated 12 March 1855.

Peter Huddleston, who was born near Melton Mowbray in 1822, enlisted in the 17th Regiment at Leicester in February 1841, aged 18 years. He subsequently served for 14 years with the Colours, and was awarded the Medal with “Sebastopol” clasp in addition to his D.C.M. Huddleston was discharged in October 1855 as a result of being incapacitated by ‘a gun shot wound of the right temple, producing fractures of the frontal and temporal bones, received on 17 February [1855] in the trenches.’