Orders, Decorations and Medals

Single: Private David Andrews, 11th Hussars
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Balaklava, Sebastopol (D. Andrews, 11th Hussars) officially impressed naming, clasps mounted in order listed, rivet to top clasp broken, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise very fine £3000-3500

Auctioned at Birmingham on 6 December 1897. In the Collett collection 1914, the Needes collection 1919, and sold at Glendining’s on 15 February 1923.

David Andrews enlisted in October 1849 and was slightly wounded in the Charge of the Light Brigade on 25 October 1854. He attended the first Balaklava Banquet on 25 October 1875, and was a member of the Balaklava Commemoration Society 1879.