A Collection of Medals to the Rifle Brigade

Four: Private William Sims, 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade
South Africa 1834-53 (1st Bn. Rifle Bde.); Crimea 1854-55, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (1st Batn. Rifle Bde.) officially impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (3057, 1st Bn. Rifle Brigade); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (1 R.B.) edge bruising and contact marks to the first two, therefore good fine or better (4)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Rifle Brigade.

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Sold with copy service papers which confirm his medals. He was wounded at the battle of Inkermann 5 November, 1854 (Ref. London Gazette 11 December, 1854).