PRE WW1 BRITISH ARMY CRIMEAN WAR & TURKISH AWARD MEDAL GROUP O’BRIEN 7TH FOOT

Description

Offered is an original British Army Crimean War medal pair to Private P. O’Brien, 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers).

Crimea Medal 1854-56, 3 clasps ALMA, INKERMAN & SEBASTOPOL, contemporarily engraved, PTE PHP O’BRIEN. 7TH FOOT.; Turkish Crimea Medal 1855 un named as issued. Comes with copy medal roll, enlistment papers and (PDF research file available on request) “7th Royal Fusiliers in the Crimea by JP Kelleher.

Philip O’Brien was born Buttertown, Dublin in 1817. Enlisted into the 7th Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) 12/3/1839. Discharged 30/4/1855, after 16 years and 50 days service on medical grounds due to ‘chronic ophthalmia’ (inflammation of the eye) contracted in America in 1849. His service records are poor, giving only the barest details. The medal rolls show he is positively entitled to clasps Alma & Inkerman, but it will be noted the rolls were intermittently made up and clasps cannot be always accurately recorded. A good Crimean War medal pair to a soldier who saw some hard fighting.