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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 205

x A Good ´Heavy Brigade´ Crimea Medal to Private T. Robertson, 4th Dragoon Guards Crimea 1854-56, three clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (T. Robertson. 4th Dragn. Gds.), officially impressed, suspension claw tightened, light contact marks to obverse, otherwise good very fine Estimate £ 800-1,200 823 Private Thomas Robertson, born Linlithgow, Scotland; enlisted 4th Dragoon Guards, 1845; left with the Regiment for the Crimea, May 1854; WO12/270 shows Robertson being present at the muster for October 31st 1854 which covered the battle of Balaklava and the Charge of the Heavy Brigade; he arrived back in England, 1.7.1856 and purchased his discharge in 1859. Provenance: Christie October 1981

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