Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Private George Goddard 46th. Foot) Hunt & Roskell engraved naming, edge bruising, good very fine and a scarce 4-clasp award to the 46th Foot £500-£700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units.

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Only a detachment of the Regiment, 6 Officers and 225 men, made up of Sir George Cathcart’s Honour Guard and two companies of the Advance Party, were present at the Battle of Alma on 20 September 1854, and the subsequent actions at Balaklava and Inkermann.

George Goddard was born in Hook, near Kingston, Surrey, and attested for the 46th Regiment of Foot on 28 October 1834. He served overseas in Gibraltar, the West Indies, North America, and in the Crimea, and is shown on the Muster Rolls of 1-30 June 1854 as ‘Guard’; and those for 1 July to 30 September 1854 as ‘Turkish Detachment’, from which one may deduce that he sailed for the Crimea on the steamer Avon on 22 July 1854, and landed in the Crimea on 14 September of that year. Subsequently shown as ‘Sick at Scutari’, he was discharged ‘medically unfit for service from paralytic affection of left side, the result of exposure and fatigue on service in the Crimea’ on 18 June 1855.

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