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Turkish Crimea 55th Wounded

Turkish Crimea Medal, 2068 Sergt John Lakin, 55th (Westmoreland) Regiment of Foot, wounded in action at Inkermann.

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Turkish Crimea Medal, 2068 Sergt John Lakin, 55th (Westmoreland) Regiment of Foot, wounded in action at Inkermann.

 

Contemporarily engraved in neat serif capitals: “2068 Sergt John Lakin 55th Foot.”

 

Fitted with fixed British Crimea style scroll suspension.

 

John Lakin, born 1824 in Donnington, Horncastle, Lincolnshire.

 

First attested for service on 13th March 1844 with the 55th Regiment of Foot.

 

He would go on to serve a full 21 years with the regiment, spending 1 year 2 months overseas all during the Crimean War.

 

“His conduct has been very good and he was when promoted in possession of 3 good conduct badges and would had he not been promoted have been in possession of 5 good conduct badges.
He has received the medal for long service & good conduct with a gratuity of £5, also the Crimean Medal and 3 clasps for Alma, Inkermann and Sevastopol and Turkish War Medal.

 

His name appears four times in the Regimental Defaulters Book, Has never been tried by court martial.

 

He was Wounded at Inkermann on 5th November 1854 in the leg, no court of enquiry held.”

 

He was discharged aged 41 having finished his 21 years and allowed to claim his pension, choosing to return to Louth in Lincolnshire.

 

He is then shown in later life on the 1871 Census at Newmarket Watts Lane in Louth, and in 1881 and 1891 census, living in a Cottage in Little Cawthorpe in Louth, Lincolnshire with his wife Mary.

 

He died in Louth during 1896.

 

His Army Long Service Medal was sold for £12 by Seaby’s in their Coin and Medal Bulletin circa 1976, code Z12M14.