Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major Charles Heycock, 89th Regiment

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Captn., 89th Regt.) contemporary engraved naming; Order of the Medjidie, 5th class breast badge, silver, gold and enamels, this with contemporary strengthening repair to suspension and lacking one star from inter-arm ‘star and crescent’ device; Turkish Crimea, British issue, unnamed, original mounting as worn from triple-buckle Hunt & Roskell silver pin brooch, pitting to the first, otherwise nearly very fine or better (3) £250-300

Charles Heycock joined the 89th Regiment as an Ensign on 31 March 1848, becoming Lieutenant in December 1851, and Captain in December 1854. He served in the Crimea from 5th January 1855, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol, and the attacks of the 18th June and 8th September (Medal with clasp, 5th Class of the Medjidie, and Turkish medal). He commanded field detachments against insurgent Bheels in Guzerat in 1858, and again in operations connected with the pursuit of rebel forces in Rajpootana in 1859-59 (no medals granted for these services). He as a Major on 29 May 1869.