Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Troop Sergeant Major W. Parsons, 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys)

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Sebastopol, Inkermann, Balaklava (W... Parsons, Rl. Scots ...) contemporary engraved naming, clasps mounted in order listed; Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (Troop S. Maj. W. Parsons, 2nd Dgns.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (S. W. Parsons. 2nd Dragoons) the first with severe edge bruising and partial loss of naming, good fine, otherwise good very fine (3) £400-500

William Parsons enlisted at Ipswich on 13 October 1843, aged 15. Discharged in August 1870, he received his M.S.M. on 16 February 1892, together with an Annuity of £10, and died on 8 November 1893. According to the medal rolls he is entitled to the Sebastopol clasp only as a Sergeant.