Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. Tagg, 5th Dragoon Guards
Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (5th Dragoon Guards), contemporary engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (654, 5th Dragn. Gds.), officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (No. 654 Pt., 5th Dragoon Gds.), regimentally impressed naming, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise generally about very fine (3) £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Darwent.

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Joseph Tagg was born near Nottingham and enlisted in the 5th Dragoon Guards in June 1839, aged 17 years. In his subsequent career of nearly 25 years with the Colours, he served for two years out in the Crimea and was entitled to the Medal with clasps for ‘Balaklava’, ‘Inkermann’ and ‘Sebastopol’, in addition to the Turkish Medal.

Discharged in December 1863, he gave his intended place of residence as Burton Joyce, Nottingham, and he turns up there in an abode at Martin’s Yard in the 1881 census, being described as an unmarried 58 year old ‘Army pensioner’.