Orders, Decorations and Medals

A good Light Brigade group of three to Private John Hogan, 8th Hussars

CRIMEA 1854-5,3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol, officially impressed naming; INDIAN MUTINY 1857-8, 1 clasp, Central India; TURKISH CRIMEA, Sardinian issue, this unnamed with rings for suspension, contact marks, nearly very fine (3)

John Hogan was born in January 1828 at Tipperary, Ireland, and joined the 8th Hussars at the age of 19 on 13 February, 1847, in the County of Dublin. He embarked with the regiment for the Crimea in the H.T. 'Shooting Star' and was present with them at the actions of Balaklava, Inkerman and Sebastopol. He was one of approximately 75 'chargers' from the regiment who subsequently served in Central India during the Indian Mutiny. Hogan was twice imprisoned during his service, once for desertion and once for being absent without leave. He was discharged in January 1869, as medically unfit having lost the second finger of his right hand in an accident in the discharge of his military duty. He attended the first Balaklava Banquet at Alexandra Palace in London, on 25 October, 1875, and became a member of the Balaklava Commemoration Society in 1879, at which time there were listed in the rules the names of 22 officers and 200 other ranks, known to be surviving at that time. His name appeared on the Loyal Address to Queen Victoria, signed by survivors, on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in June, 1887. He was one of only 26 survivors who attended the annual dinner of the B.C.S. in 1893 at the St. James's Restaurant, London. Hogan received a weekly pension from the T. H. Roberts Survivors Relief Fund until his death at York on 24 June, 1900, and was buried in a public grave in York Cemetery. This group of medals was latterly in the Fitzpatrick collection but was also noted to be in the Loxley collection in January, 1912.