THE CRIMEA MEDAL WITH SEBASTOPOL CLASP AWARDED TO PRIVATE W. JACKSON, 3RD BATTALION GRENADIER GUARDS, WOUNDED BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, OCTOBER 1854. Crimea Medal, 1 clasp, Sebastopol
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THE CRIMEA MEDAL WITH SEBASTOPOL CLASP AWARDED TO PRIVATE W. JACKSON, 3RD BATTALION GRENADIER GUARDS, WOUNDED BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, OCTOBER 1854. Crimea Medal, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (regimentally impressed naming, impressed in serifed capitals: 6565. WM. JACKSON 3RD. BATTN. GREN GUARDS.). Rim bruise at 6 o’clock, otherwise Very Fine.
Medal accompanied by 4 pages of copied service papers, medal roll extracts (2), confirming medal, and extract from published casualty roll, confirming Private Jackson wounded in action before Sebastopol, 18th – 21st October 1854.
William Jackson, born in the parish of Henlow, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, enlisted into the Grenadier Guards at Gosmore, Hertfordshire, 20/2/1854. At the time of enlistment he was 20 years of age and gave his trade as labourer. Jackson never rose above the rank of Private and was discharged on 23/11/1857, after 3 years and 296 days service with the colours, as a result of “deformity … of the bones of the right foot”. At the time of discharge Jackson’s general character was described as “good” and it was confirmed that he had never been tried by court-martial.