VINTAGE PRE WW1 BRITISH CRIMEA WAR CAMPAIGN MEDAL 1854 FOR FOREIGNER
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:14290371 | Country: UK |
| Era: 1800s | Product Type: Medals |
| Campaign: WW1 | Authenticity: Original |
JB Military Antiques
Offered is a Crimean War Medal, as awarded to a foreign soldier who served with the allied forces during the Crimean War of 1853-1856.
36mm wide circular silver medal on claw and foliated swivel suspender; the face with the young head of Queen Victoria, circumscribed ‘VICTORIA REGINA’, dated ‘1854’ and signed ‘WYON’ on the base of the neck, the reverse with a winged figure of Victory crowning a Roman soldier, inscribed ‘CRIMEA’ on ...the left, signed ‘B. WYON SC.’ (for the great British medallist Benjamin Wyon, 1802-1858); on replaced correct ribbon, being un-named as issued. An edge knock at 4 & 5 O' Clock. The medal was sanctioned by Queen Victoria on 15 December 1854 and awarded to all military who disembarked in the Crimea prior to 8 September 1855 (that is, prior to fall of Sevastopol).
The Crimean war of 1854-56 between Imperial Russia and a Franco-British-Sardinian-Ottoman alliance had the aim of drawing a limit to Russian advances towards the Mediterranean and also British India. The vacuum created in the Balkans by declining Ottoman power eventually led to Austro-Russian conflict and the genesis of World War I.
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