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Next Move in the Great Game: The Crimea

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Crimean War Medal

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No. 1953 Private Patrick Timmons

46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot

c. 1856

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The original recipient of this medal was Patrick Timmons who was born around 1823 at Blessington, Wicklow, Ireland. He attested with the 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot as No. 1953 at Dublin on 24 December 1844. He was 21 years old and could expect to be in his early forties and the end of his 21-year enlistment.

Typical of the average “ranker” of his day, Timmons's military career was rather lackluster. He received his first good conduct pay ...

Imperial & Republican France

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French Sergeant
Crimean War Veteran
c. 1860s

Troupes de Marine
Tonkin
French, Indo-China
c. 1900

Officer
Fusiliers Marins
Nomeá, New Caledonia
22 April 1910

Chasseur
1st Regiment

Chasseurs d'Afrique
Blidah, Algeria
c. 1890s

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Chasseur Cycliste

Luneville, France
c. 1900

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Sous Lieutenant de la Salle
Légion Étrangere
Mexico
c. 1860s

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Tirailleur
Tirailleurs Algériens
Tunisia
c. 1890s

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Zouave
3rd Regiment d'Zouaves
Oran
c. 1890s

Imperial Germany

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Reiter

Heinrich Tieves

Schutztruppe für

Deutsch-Südwestafrika

Berlin, Germay

c. 1900

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Reiter

Fritz Vesterling

Schutztruppe für

Deutsch-Südwestafrika

Berlin, Germay

c. 1910

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Privates
Ostasiatische Infanterie  China
c. 1900s

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Matrose

(Ordinary Seaman)
Kaiserliche Marine

Germany
c. 1900s

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Private

Asienkorps

(Pascha II Expedition)

Palestine

c. 1917

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Schutztruppe Reiter
German Southwest Africa
c. 1905

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Matrose

(Ordinary Seaman)

Outfitted for Shore Duty
Kaiserliche Marine

Germany
c. 1890s

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Bavarian
Dispatch Cyclist
c. 1910

United States of America

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Privates

Gabriel Chernecky & George Jones

15th U.S. Infantry

Tientsin, China

c. 1914

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Trooper Martin Talmadge
7th United States Cavalry
Havana, Cuba
c. 1900

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U.S. Army Color Guard
Philippine Islands
c. 1910

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U.S. Soldier
&
Japanese Woman
Japan
c. 1917

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Sergeant James Holden's Squad
8th U.S. Infantry
Camp Columbia, Cuba
c. 1900

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Private

15th U.S. Infantry
&
Two Russian Soldiers

Tientsin, China
c. 1910

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Three U.S. Soldiers

Camp Wallace
Philippine Islands
c. 1910

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Ingorot Constable
Philippine Constabulary
Philippine Islands
c. 1910

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Military Policeman
Philippine Constabulary
Philippine Islands
c. 1910

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Private
Philippine Scouts
Philippine Islands
c. 1920

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Private

K Company, 1st Regiment

Pennsylvania National Guard

c. 1890s

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Military Policeman
Philippine Constabulary
Philippine Islands
c. 1910

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Private
15th U.S. Infantry Regiment

China
c. 1910

Czarist Russia

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Russian Cossack in Rickshaw
Northern China
c. 1900

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Russian Infantrymen
Russian Empire

c. 1900

Kingdom of Spain

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Soldado
Regimiento de Infantería 'La Reina' nº 2

Ceuta, North Africa

c. 1910

Soldado

Regimiento de Infantería "Bailén" nº 60

Ceuta, North Africa

c. 1921

Colonel
Regimiento de Infantería

North Africa

c. 1910

The Netherlands

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Private

Schutterij Militia

Java, Dutch East Indies 1860s

Eerste-Luitenant

A.E.N.B. Ötken
Batavia, Dutch East Indies
17 April 1878

Dutch Military Personnel
Dutch East Indies
c. 1890s

Imperial Japan

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Private

Japanese Infantry

Japan

1900s

Portugal

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Soldado

Portuguese Colonial Forces

Macau, Portuguese China

1905

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Portuguese Naval Officers
2º Tenente  João Maria Rodrigo
Pinheiro de Figueira e Melo

Goa, Portuguese India
17 February 1902

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Soldado

Regimento de Infantaria nº 26

Azores

c. 1900s

Kingdom of Italy

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Italian Infantryman
Tripoli, Libya
c. 1911

Ottoman Empire

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Ottoman Trooper
Ottoman Empire
c. 1910s

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Four Italian Infantryman
c. 1911

Military Attachés of the Rival Powers

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British, Russian, German, Austrian, Japanese, and
Swedish Military Attachés
Santiago de Cuba
1898

American, Russian, German, French, Austrian, and
Italian Military Attachés
Cape Town, South Africa
c. 1901

Other Nations of Interest

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Subteniente

Ernesto Alvarez
Portoviejo, Ecuador
4 December 1916

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