Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Gunner Henry Linsdell, Royal Horse Artillery

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Gunr., Rl. Horse Arty.) engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Gunner, F. Tp. R.H. Art.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, fitted with ‘British Crimea’ style suspension, unnamed; the two Crimea medals mounted together from an ornate silver brooch bar, the Indian Mutiny medal mounted from a matching brooch bar; a silver pin-backed silver bugle attached to the ribbon of the Turkish Crimea Medal; together with a bronze ‘Fete of the Veterans’ Medal 1908, unnamed, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (4) £650-750

A note with the lot states ‘that Linsdell was with Maude’s I Troop in the Crimea from July to October, and was sick at Scutari by 30 November. By 28 February he was in Captain Calvert’s detachment at Woolwich, and on 18 May 1855 he received his medal from Queen Victoria at the Hyde Park Parade. He transferred into F Troop on 1 December 1855’. Confirmed as having received his Crimea Medal from the Queen.