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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 24

(x) The Crimea Medal awarded to Private Joseph Phillips, 4th Light Dragoons, who was mortally wounded in the Charge of the Light Brigade

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann (Joseph Phillips. 4th Lt. Dragns.), officially impressed naming, minor edge bruising and a few surface marks, very fine

Provenance:
Sotheby's, July 1926.
Spink, March 1996, Tooze collection of Crimea Medals (Lot 704).

Joseph Phillips was born in Buckinghamshire circa 1832. A chair maker by trade he enlisted into the 4th Light Dragoons (4th Hussars) on 11 January 1849, and served with the regiment in the Crimea in 1854. He was mortally wounded in the charge at Balaklava and died in the Regimental Camp on 9 December 1854.

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Estimate
£6,000 to £8,000

Starting price
£5800