Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major C. Heycock, 89th Regiment

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Captn., 89th Regt.), contemporary engraved naming; Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class, silver, gold and enamel, this with contemporary strengthening repair to suspension and lacking one star from inter-arm ‘star and crescent’ device; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, pierced with ring suspension, mounted as worn from a triple-buckle by Hunt & Roskell, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (3) £440-480

Charles Heycock, of East Norton, Leicestershire, was born on 11 October 1827. Entering the 89th Regiment as an Ensign purchase on 31 March 1848, he purchased his Lieutenancy on 5 December 1851. Promoted Captain on 30 December 1854, he served in the Crimea War, being present at the siege and fall of Sebastopol from 5 January 1855 and the attacks of 18 June and 8 September 1855 (First and final attacks on the Redan). For his services he was awarded Queen’s medal and clasp, the Turkish medal and the Turkish Order of Medjidie 5th Class. 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 attained the rank of Major on 29 May 1869. He died on 8 March 1886. Sold with copied research.