Auction Catalogue

16 & 17 September 2010

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1338

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17 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£1,200

Three: Gunner Henry Linsdell, Royal Horse Artillery

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Gunr. Hy. Linsdell, Rl. Horse Arty.) contemporary engraved naming in the style of Hunt & Roskell; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Gunner Hy. Linsdell, F. Tp. R.H. Art.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with Crimea suspension, now detached, the two Crimea medals mounted together from an ornately engraved silver brooch bar, the Indian Mutiny medal mounted from a matching engraved silver brooch bar, a 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, otherwise nearly very fine and better (4) £1000-1200

Gunner Henry Linsdell served with Maude’s ‘I’ Troop in the Crimea from July to October 1854, 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.

‘I’ Troop, R.H.A. was present throughout the campaign in the Crimea, attached to the Cavalry division, and at the affair of the Bulganak, had the honour of firing the opening guns of the campaign. Together with ‘C’ Troop, they were the only Horse Artillery to qualify for all four clasps. Confirmed as having received his Crimea Medal from the Queen and sold with relevant copied extracts from the medal rolls.