28th Nov, 2025 14:00

Service & Campaign Medals: Waterloo to QEII
 
Lot 69
 

Group, Crimea Medal, French Légion d'Honneur, Turkish Crimea Medal and Order of the Medjidie

the first inscribed 'CUTHBERT G. ELLISON, LT. COL. GRENR. GUARDS.', with 'SEBASTOPOL', 'INKERMANN', and 'BALAKLAVA' clasps, the Legion of Honour a Chevalier’s breast badge, the third British issue, uninscribed as issued, the Turkish Order of Medjidie 5th class

Notes:

There is note of a Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Cuthbert Ellison within the list of British recipients of the French Légion d'Honneur, as below.

  • Ellison, Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Cuthbert George Brigade-Major, Grenadier Guards, Staff

Also named in the supplement to the London Gazette, 4th August 1856, as recipient of Knight (5th Class),

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Page 1254 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 2,1858 also notes Cuthbert George Ellison, Grenadier Guards, as recipient of Order of Medjidie

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