Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

The Light Brigade medal to Private John Fitzgibbon, 8th Dragoons, who was killed in the charge at Balaklava

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (J. Fitzgibbon, 8th Dragoons) officially impressed naming, good very fine and rare

£6000-8000

First noted as having been sold at Sotheby’s on 1 March 1881, and subsequently by Glendining’s in September 1919, March 1927, June 1929, and October 1937.

John Fitzgibbon was born in Limerick and enlisted for the 8th Dragoons on 23 June 1847. A harness-maker prior to enlistment, he embarked for the Crimea aboard the transport Echunga on 25 May 1854. He was killed in the charge of the Light Brigade on 25 October 1854.