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Three: Lieutenant-General H. P. Newton, Royal Artillery Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp,...
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Three: Lieutenant-General H. P. Newton, Royal Artillery Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (H. . Newton Capt: Royal Artillery) Hunt & Roskell engraved naming, edge bruise and contact marks that have obscured middle initial; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast badge, silver, gold, and enamel, unmarked; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, pierced as issued with ring suspension, enamel damage to Crescent suspension on Medjidieh, with one section of inscription around central medallion missing, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £400-£500 --- Horace Parker Newton was born at Elvedon Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk, on 29 October 1824, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Newton, Suffolk Militia, and sometime Member of Parliament for Ipswich. Entering the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, on 10 February 1840, he passed out first in his year’s intake, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 11 January 1943. Promoted Lieutenant on 1 April 1844, and Captain on 6 January 1855, he commanded No. 2 Company, 1st Battery in the Crimea, and for his services was appointed to the Fifth Class of the Order of the Medjidieh and promoted Brevet Major. Advanced Major-General on 13 February 1881, he transferred to the Retired List with the honorary rank of Lieutenant-General on 1 February 1882. Sold with an unusual Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Star, with crown suspension, the obverse depicting Queen Victoria and the future Kings Edward VII, George V, and Edward VIII at centre, the reverse engraved ‘To Commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1897’.
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Three: Lieutenant-General H. P. Newton, Royal Artillery Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (H. . Newton Capt: Royal Artillery) Hunt & Roskell engraved naming, edge bruise and contact marks that have obscured middle initial; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast badge, silver, gold, and enamel, unmarked; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, pierced as issued with ring suspension, enamel damage to Crescent suspension on Medjidieh, with one section of inscription around central medallion missing, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £400-£500 --- Horace Parker Newton was born at Elvedon Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk, on 29 October 1824, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Newton, Suffolk Militia, and sometime Member of Parliament for Ipswich. Entering the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, on 10 February 1840, he passed out first in his year’s intake, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 11 January 1943. Promoted Lieutenant on 1 April 1844, and Captain on 6 January 1855, he commanded No. 2 Company, 1st Battery in the Crimea, and for his services was appointed to the Fifth Class of the Order of the Medjidieh and promoted Brevet Major. Advanced Major-General on 13 February 1881, he transferred to the Retired List with the honorary rank of Lieutenant-General on 1 February 1882. Sold with an unusual Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Star, with crown suspension, the obverse depicting Queen Victoria and the future Kings Edward VII, George V, and Edward VIII at centre, the reverse engraved ‘To Commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1897’.
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