Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Surgeon J. H. Llewelyn, 8th Hussars, late Royal Scots Greys

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Surgeon Llewelyn, Rl. Scots Greys), engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Surgn. I. H. Llewelyn, 8th Hussars); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, pierced with ring suspension, good very fine (3) £850-950

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Jenkin Homfray Llewelyn was born in Calcutta on 21 July 1821. Appointed an Assistant Surgeon with the 44th Foot in March 1848 and with the 7th Dragoon Guards in January 1850, he was promoted to Staff Surgeon 2nd Class in February 1855. He served throughout the Crimean War, including the battles of the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkermann, and the siege of Sebastopol, and was appointed Surgeon to the 2nd Dragoons in January 1856. He transferred to the 8th Hussars in August 1858 and served in the Indian Mutiny, being present at the action at Boordah. Surgeon Llewelyn died at Tunbridge Wells on 15 May 1867.