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Officers of the East Indian Company Armies were offered an incentive to become officers of the Turkish Contingent.
Officers of the Contingent were Indian Army and not Queens Officers and therefore were considered ineligible for the British Crimean War medal<ref>''Rootsweb Crimean War Message Board '' thread : Theilmann, Mike[httphttps://66www.43ancestry.23.5com/boards/topics.Military.crimeanwar/14.1/mb.ashx Crimean War Turkish Contingent] 09 Apr 2013 (retrieved 4 May 20149 February 2019.)</ref>
==External links==
*[httphttps://www.ottoman-uniforms.com/1855-till-1858-anglo-turkish-contingent-/ 1855-till-1858/ Anglo-Turkish Contingent 1855 till 1858] (may be slow to download). (Quicker archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20140109031302/http://www.ottoman-uniforms.com/anglo-turkish-contingent-1855-till-1858/ version]) (retrieved 4 May 2014)
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