Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Private Josh. Jenkins, 5th Dn. Gds.) contemporary engraved naming, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount.

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Joseph Jenkins was born in the Parish of Walcott, near Bath in Somerset. A shoe maker by trade he attested for the 5th Dragoon Guards in 1852, aged 21 years. Serving in the Crimea War, he was discharged in July 1855 as being ‘unfit for further service in consequence of persistant headache and vertigo the result of wd. of right side of head by fragments of shell received at Balaklava.’ Sold with copied service papers and a letter from Canon Lummis confirming that Jenkins was ‘Wounded at Balaklava, 25th October, sent to Scutari, 31st October.’ Listed in British Battles and Medals 1988 as being one of the wounded from the 5th Dragoon Guards forming part of the Heavy Brigade at the battle of Balaklava.