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Description: | Artist: Hunt & Roskell, die-engraver; Date(s): 1859 - 1860; Classification(s): medal, Turkish Crimean Medal (Sardinian), medals, Military, Ottoman Empire, British Army, contemporary copy; Acquisition: loan by Cambridge in America, 2005 [LW.0070]
Description: The readiness of Great Britain and France, and also Sardinia whose contribution is often forgotten, to aid the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War, was recognised by Sultan Abdúlmecid with the issue of a medal for all the troops of all nations involved, struck to a slightly different design for each country.
The majority of the medals for British troops were however lost with their ship during carriage to Britain in 1856, and so British troops often obtained themselves copies of the Sardinian or sometimes the French issue instead. This example is a fine imitation of the Sardinian issue, with the Sardinian standard given pride of place in the field. It is engraved to Private J. Marlin of the 4th King's Own Regiment. Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Turkish Crimean Medal (Sardinian) Hunt & Roskell medal | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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