PRIVATE PETER MCNAB, 88TH REGIMENT (THE POST 1880 1ST BATTALION CONNAUGHT RANGERS), WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA RIVER, 20TH SEPTEMBER 1854 AND SUBSEQUENTLY DIED IN THE CRIMEA. Crimea Medal, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkerman, Sebastopol (naming engraved in a similar style to naming found on medals officially named by Hunt & Roskell, engraved in serifed block capitals: PETER McNAB. 88th. REGt.). Good Very Fine to Almost Extremely Fine and with a length of original ribbon.
Only one Peter McNab on the Crimean War Medal roll for the 88th Foot.
Medal accompanied by extract published Crimea casualty roll, confirming Peter McNab wounded in action at the battle of the Alma River, 20/9/1854, copied medal roll extracts (3, dated "Camp before Sebastopol", 5/1/1855, 28/6/1855 and 28/11/1855 respectively) confirming medal and clasps, the medal roll dated 28/11/1855 recording McNab as being "dead", and the medal roll dated 28/6/1855 recording McNab's medal as having been forwarded to the "Mint 29/5/60" (indicating that this medal was sent to the Mint in 1860 for forwarding to McNab's next of kin.)
The Crimean War casualty roll records the 88th Foot as having total casualties of at the Alma River; 4 men killed, 18 wounded and 1 missing.
