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Four: Corporal W. Chalmers, 71st Highland Light Infantry Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp,...
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Four: Corporal W. Chalmers, 71st Highland Light Infantry
Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (No. 3702 W. Chambers [sic], 71 Hd. Lt. Infy.) contemporarily engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Wm. Chalmers, 71st Highlanders Lt. Iy.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Umbeyla (3702 W. Chalmers, H.Ms. 71st Regt.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (No. 3702 Willm. Chalmers, 71 Hd. Lt. Infy.) contemporarily engraved naming, plugged and fitted with a Crimea style suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine and better (4) £1,600-£2,000
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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2010.
William Chalmers was born in Whitburn, Linlithgow. A Tailor by occupation, he attested for the 71st Regiment of Foot at Edinburgh on 4 February 1854, aged 18 years. Posted to the Crimea, he saw service at the siege of Sebastopol, before proceeding with the Regiment to India, and seeing further service during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, being present at the action of the attack on Fort Mahighur.
Chalmers saw further service during the Umbeyla campaign in November 1863, as part of the Yusafzai Field Force, where the regiment took part in the stiff fighting to retake ‘Crag Picket’. Promoted Corporal in April 1872, he was discharged at Netley in 1875, after 21 years’ service.
Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (No. 3702 W. Chambers [sic], 71 Hd. Lt. Infy.) contemporarily engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Wm. Chalmers, 71st Highlanders Lt. Iy.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Umbeyla (3702 W. Chalmers, H.Ms. 71st Regt.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (No. 3702 Willm. Chalmers, 71 Hd. Lt. Infy.) contemporarily engraved naming, plugged and fitted with a Crimea style suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine and better (4) £1,600-£2,000
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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2010.
William Chalmers was born in Whitburn, Linlithgow. A Tailor by occupation, he attested for the 71st Regiment of Foot at Edinburgh on 4 February 1854, aged 18 years. Posted to the Crimea, he saw service at the siege of Sebastopol, before proceeding with the Regiment to India, and seeing further service during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, being present at the action of the attack on Fort Mahighur.
Chalmers saw further service during the Umbeyla campaign in November 1863, as part of the Yusafzai Field Force, where the regiment took part in the stiff fighting to retake ‘Crag Picket’. Promoted Corporal in April 1872, he was discharged at Netley in 1875, after 21 years’ service.
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Four: Corporal W. Chalmers, 71st Highland Light Infantry
Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (No. 3702 W. Chambers [sic], 71 Hd. Lt. Infy.) contemporarily engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Wm. Chalmers, 71st Highlanders Lt. Iy.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Umbeyla (3702 W. Chalmers, H.Ms. 71st Regt.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (No. 3702 Willm. Chalmers, 71 Hd. Lt. Infy.) contemporarily engraved naming, plugged and fitted with a Crimea style suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine and better (4) £1,600-£2,000
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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2010.
William Chalmers was born in Whitburn, Linlithgow. A Tailor by occupation, he attested for the 71st Regiment of Foot at Edinburgh on 4 February 1854, aged 18 years. Posted to the Crimea, he saw service at the siege of Sebastopol, before proceeding with the Regiment to India, and seeing further service during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, being present at the action of the attack on Fort Mahighur.
Chalmers saw further service during the Umbeyla campaign in November 1863, as part of the Yusafzai Field Force, where the regiment took part in the stiff fighting to retake ‘Crag Picket’. Promoted Corporal in April 1872, he was discharged at Netley in 1875, after 21 years’ service.
Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (No. 3702 W. Chambers [sic], 71 Hd. Lt. Infy.) contemporarily engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Wm. Chalmers, 71st Highlanders Lt. Iy.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Umbeyla (3702 W. Chalmers, H.Ms. 71st Regt.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (No. 3702 Willm. Chalmers, 71 Hd. Lt. Infy.) contemporarily engraved naming, plugged and fitted with a Crimea style suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine and better (4) £1,600-£2,000
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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2010.
William Chalmers was born in Whitburn, Linlithgow. A Tailor by occupation, he attested for the 71st Regiment of Foot at Edinburgh on 4 February 1854, aged 18 years. Posted to the Crimea, he saw service at the siege of Sebastopol, before proceeding with the Regiment to India, and seeing further service during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, being present at the action of the attack on Fort Mahighur.
Chalmers saw further service during the Umbeyla campaign in November 1863, as part of the Yusafzai Field Force, where the regiment took part in the stiff fighting to retake ‘Crag Picket’. Promoted Corporal in April 1872, he was discharged at Netley in 1875, after 21 years’ service.
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