Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. Powell, Coldstream Guards, wounded in action at Inkermann, 5 November 1854

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (J. Powell, Coldstream Guards) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with swivel ring suspension, good very fine (2)
£800-1000

Joseph Powell was born in 1830, at Netherthorp, near Banbury, Oxfordshire. In the 1841 Census he is recorded as living at Box Hedge, Netherthorp, Banbury. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Coldstream Guards at Oxford on 2 November 1847, aged 18 years. With the 1st Battalion he served in the Crimean War, seeing action at the battles of Alma, Balaklava and Inkermann and serving at the siege of Sebastopol. At Inkermann 5 November 1854, serving in Lieutenant-Colonel Somerset’s Company, he was severely wounded, being shot in the left thigh. Invalided to England, he was discharged at London on 13 March 1855 as being unfit for further service. It is possible that Powell may have been at Buckingham Palace as part of the Coldstream Guards detachment seen by Queen Victoria in 1855 (possibly one of the men featured in a copied photograph). After his discharge he received a pension of 9d a day; his intended place of residence was Netherthorp, Banbury. On 1 December 1883 Powell was admitted as an in pensioner at Chelsea and he received financial help from the Lloyds Patriotic Fund in January 1885. He reverted to an out pensioner on 1 November 1889, returning to Banbury. Latterly living at 4 Mill Street, Banbury, he died of bronchitis on 13 January 1890, aged 63 years.

With a folder containing well presented copied research, including attestation and discharge papers and roll extracts.