A Heavy Brigade pair awarded to Private Isaac Brooks, 6th Dragoons

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (I. Brooks 6-D) contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue ((I. Brooks 6-D) contemporary engraved naming, both fitted with silver ribbon brooches and sold with his original Account Book of 1854-55, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2)
£600-800

Isaac Brooks was born in the Parish of St George’s, Bristol, and attested there for the 6th Dragoons on 22 July 1851, aged 18 years. He served in the Crimea and Turkey two years and two months, and was present at Balaklava, Inkermann and Sebastopol. He afterwards served in India for five years one month, and was discharged on termination of his limited engagement at Aldershot on 11 January 1864. Brooks returned home to live in Bristol where he was a noted member of The Crimea and Indian Mutiny Veterans’ Association, Bristol, appearing in a number of group photographs and in the published roll of the association for 1892-1912. The magazine Broad Arrow, dated 3 November 1895, records that ‘A complimentary dinner was held on the 25th October at Newtown in honour of Isaac Brooks late Inniskilling Dragoons, who was in the Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava and is the only survivor in Bristol’. He died in Bristol about March of 1916 at the age of 84. Sold with research including copied discharge papers and several copied photographs.