Auction Catalogue

5 July 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 37

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5 July 2011

Hammer Price:
£1,450

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann (F. Gaunt. 2nd Dragoons) officially impressed naming, fitted with T. B. Bailey Coventry top brooch, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore very fine
£1400-1800

Frederick R. Gaunt enlisted on 4 March 1854. The musters show he was effective in the period 1 October to 31 December of that year. He died at Scutari on 30 January 1855.

According to
Forgotten Heroes - The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, by Roy Dutton, Gaunt ‘probably rode in the Charge’. He is also entitled to the clasp for Sebastopol.