CRIMEA MEDAL AWARDED TO JAS BLOOMFIELD, 17TH REGIMENT OF LAN...

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£5,800

CRIMEA MEDAL AWARDED TO JAS BLOOMFIELD, 17TH REGIMENT OF LANCERS with bars for Sebastopol, Inkermann and Balaklava together with a period 19th century cabinet potrait of James Bloomfield wearing the medal (the medal with contemporary engraving) and his original discharge paper dated 16th October 1856 noting his ‘being medically unfit for the service’ but also showing his enlistment date for the 17th Lancers as 21st September 1836 and signed off as being of ‘Good Character’, also with two small sheets for an Annual Dinner Programme for 1858, possibly regimental but unmarked together with a later George V British WWI War Medal stamped for F.3655 T.J. Bloomfield P.O.M R.N.A.S (Petty Officer Mechanic Royal Naval Air Service).

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Private James Bloomfield is listed in the Illustrated London News article of 1875 as being among the rank and file Chargers at the Balaclava banquet.