Lot Archive

Lot

№ 299

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26 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£1,000

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Wm. Borrowdale, 1st Bn. Rifle Bde.) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £800-1000

Private William Borrowdale, 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade, was killed in the trenches before Sebastopol, 5 January 1855 (London Gazette 26 January 1855).