Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Sebastopol, Azoff (C. F. O. Basstoe. H.M.s. Agamemnon.) impressed naming of the style usually associated with this ship, edge bruising, good very fine £500-£700

56 clasps for Azoff to H.M.S. Agamemnon, all issued with the same distinctive style of impressed naming.

Charles Frederick Holloway Basstoe was born in St. Pancras, London, in 1818 and first went to sea as an Apprentice in 1832. He served in H.M.S. Agamemnon in 1855, and died at sea in the S.S. Brightman on 12 December 1856.

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