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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 358

A Fine 'Light Brigade' Casualty's Crimea Medal to Corporal, Later Sergeant E. Hudson, 11th Hussars
Crimea 1854-56, two clasps, Alma, Balaklava (Corpl. Edwd. Hudson. 11th. Hussars.), officially impressed, extremely fine, with contemporary embroidered silk riband and named lid of card box of issue, all housed in a contemporary red leather box

1142 Sergeant Edward Hudson, born Abingdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), 1822; enlisted in the 11th Hussars, May 1842; promoted Corporal, May 1854; served with the Regiment in the Crimea and wounded in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava, 25.10.1854; promoted Sergeant, January 1855; died, 31.1.1855, in hospital at Kadikoi, near Balaklava.

Provenance: Glendining, December 1989

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