Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann (Henry Horn, 4th Lt. Dragns.), officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £1000-1200

Ex Spink’s Numismatic Circular, May 1910 and Hayward’s Catalogue, December 1968.

Henry Horn was born in 1830 at Kennington, near Ashford, Kent. A labourer by trade, he enlisted into the 4th Light Dragoons on 1 August 1851. On the roll for the above three clasps and Sebastopol, he nevertheless remains an unconfirmed ‘charger’. He was sent to Scutari on 28 January 1855 and died there on 2 February. Sold with a number copied papers confirming clasps and death and a copy of the above Hayward’s catalogue.