Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Corporal Joseph Vick, 4th Light Dragoons
Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Corpl. J. Vick, 4th Lt. Dragns.) officially impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., large letter reverse (725 Corpl. Joseph Vick, 4th Lt. Dragns. 1856); Turkish Crimea, British issue, unnamed, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (3) £3000-3500

Sold at Glendining’s 17 June 1908, 22 November 1916, and 19 December 1922.

Joseph Vick was born at Pitten, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, in December 1811, or January 1812. He enlisted for the 4th Q.O. Light Dragoons at Salisbury on 24 June 1824, aged 22 years and 6 months. He was promoted to Corporal on 20 October 1854, and rode in the Charge five days later. Suffering from Chronic Rheumatism, ‘the result of long and arduous service’, he was discharged at Chatham on 27 July 1857.

Joseph Vick was a member of the Balaklava Commemoration Society 1879, and signed the Loyal Address in 1887. He died shortly afterwards at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, on 14 February 1888, and is commemorated by a brass mural tablet on the south wall of Great St Mary’s Chirch at Sawbridgeworth, “Erected by the inhabitants of Sawbridgeworth on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria [1897]. In memory of Joseph Vick, Corporal 4th Light Dragoons. He served in the Crimean War, being one of the Six Hundred - He did his duty.”