NAM.2001-08-187-12

Commission as Lieutenant Colonel, 3rd Regiment of Foot from 29 Jul 1859, granted to John Neptune Sargent, 8 Jun 1862. With Royal Seal. One of 19 items relating to Gen John Neptune Sargent, CB, 95th Regiment and 2nd and 1st Bns the Buffs Regiment, 1844-1864. Gen Sargent also served in 42nd Brigade Depot and 27th Foot, 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1873 to 1893, in Hong Kong, China, Alma, Inkerman, the Siege of Sevastopol and Malta. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.