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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 9843631, member: 8267&quot;]OK - the 46th South Devonshire Regiment of foot served in the Crimean War in 1854. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46th_%28South_Devonshire%29_Regiment_of_Foot" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46th_%28South_Devonshire%29_Regiment_of_Foot" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46th_(South_Devonshire)_Regiment_of_Foot</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a medal awarded to Charles Wooden of the 17th Lancers, who served in the Light Brigade (also Crimean War). It looks very similar to what we can see of the medal your fellow is wearing -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]492318[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49986/49986-h/49986-h.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49986/49986-h/49986-h.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49986/49986-h/49986-h.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A date of the mid 1850s is consistent with the type of photograph (probably an ambrotype). So, he may be from the 46th Regiment, and served in the Crimean War.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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