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Press cutting, from ‘The Dragon’, the journal of The Buffs Regiment, December 1953. Cutting about the military career of Gen J N Sargent. Includes photocopy of a photograph of Lt Gen Sargent. In three sections, one section is photocopied. 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, Crimea and Malta. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.

Alma, Battle of the, 1854 (Crimean War 1854-1856), Inkerman, Battle of, 1854 (Crimean War 1854-1856), Taku Forts, 1860 (2nd China War 1856-1860)