Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sergeant James Flockhart, 2nd Dragoons, who probably charged with the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Serjt. J. Flockhart. 2nd Dragns.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (S. J. Flockhart 2nd Dragoons) regimentally impressed naming, plugged and fitted with replacement ring suspension, both fitted with silver ribbon buckles, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £1,000-£1,200

Provenance: Christie’s, July 1983; Spink, July 1994.

James Flockhart was born in the Parish of Abby, Renfrew, and attested for the 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys) at Glasgow on 14 January 1850, aged 19 years 2 months, a groom by trade. He was promoted to Corporal on 10 May 1854, and to Sergeant on 15 July 1855. He is confirmed as being present on the musters for Balaklava and as having been sent sick to Scutari on 2 November 1854. The Scutari Muster Roll for January-March 1855 indicate that he was on a Hospital Ship in January and February. He was discharged at Edinburgh on 24 October 1861, ‘his being considered unfit for further military service.’ The surgeon’s report notes that ‘When on service in the Crimea was for a long time under treatment for intermittent fever,’ and paralysis ‘to be attributed to service in the Crimea.’