Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Light Brigade Charger’s group of three awarded to Private Stephen Kennedy, 17th Lancers

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Pte. Stepn. Kennedy, 17th Lan) contemporary engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., large letter reverse (No...ivate Stepn. Kennedy, 17th Lancers June 10th 1857); Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed, contact marks causing naming to be weak in places, the first lacking one rivet, otherwise nearly very fine (3) £3000-3500

Stephen Kennedy was born in the West Indies and enlisted originally for the 88th Foot at Dublin on 24 February 1832, aged 14 years and 2 months. He served as a Private and Drummer until May 1838, when he transferred to the 17th Lancers. He served in Turkey and the Crimea for 11 months and rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. He was discharged at Canterbury on 23 January 1860, being then in possession of a ‘Good Conduct Medal, of Five Good Conduct Stripes, the Crimean Medal with Four Clasps and the Turkish Medal’. Kennedy attended the First Balaklava Banquet on 25 October 1875, and was a member of the Balaklava Commemoration Society 1879.