A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units

Pair: Quartermaster W. G. Street, 46th Regiment of Foot, late 11th Hussars, who died on active service in India in 1864

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Paymr. Serjt. W. G. Street, 46th. Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, plugged and fitted with a Crimea-style suspension; together with the related miniature awards (the Turkish Crimea a Sardinian issue), light contact marks to first, nearly very fine and better (2) £240-£280

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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William George Street was born at Offley, Oxfordshire, on 19 August 1827. A clerk by profession, he enlisted in the 11th Hussars on 19 February 1845 and transferred two months later to the 46th Regiment of Foot. Appointed Acting Paymaster’s Clerk at Depot on 1 October 1846, he was raised Corporal upon the demise of Tredwin on 1 December 1848 and appointed Paymaster’s Clerk the following year. Landing at Balaklava with Regimental Headquarters in November 1854, he witnessed the fall of Sebastopol and was promoted Sergeant in May 1856. Returned home shortly thereafter after a passage of three weeks’ duration, he was promoted Quartermaster in April 1861, but is noted as sick and absent in February 1864; likely beset by illness, he died on 8 May 1864 whilst serving with the Regiment at Shahjehampore in India.