Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private J. H. Box, 12 the Royal Lancers

South Africa 1834-53 (John H. Box, 12th Rl. Lancers); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Pte. J. H. Box, 12th Rl. Lanrs.) engraved naming, claw refitted; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, plugged and fitted with a ‘British Crimea’ style suspension, edge bruising, contact marks, good fine and better (3) £400-500

John Holford Box was born in Brighton. A Carpenter by occupation, he attested for the 7th Dragoon Guards on 6 May 1848. On 1 June 1851 he transferred to the 12th Lancers and sailed to South Africa on the Berkshire in July 1851. With the regiment he served in the Third Kaffir War. He then served in the Crimea and in India. He was discharged on 16 July 1860. With copied service details.