Orders, Decorations and Medals

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (George Fry, 11th Hussars) engraved naming, claw refitted, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine £400-500

George Fry was born at Waverley, near Farnham, in 1821, and enlisted into the 4th Light Dragoons at London on 14 July 1841. He transferred to the 11th Hussars on 17 May 1842, and served with the regiment in the Crimea at the Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann and Sebastopol. He was invalided to England from Scutari on 1 June 1855 and subsequently received the L.S. & G.C. medal. George Fry was discharged from the Curragh on 15 August 1865, and was living in Brighton in 1875.

In the Charge of the Light Brigade the 11th Hussars had 25 men killed, and three officers and 37 men wounded, at Balaklava on 25 October 1854. Eight men were awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

Note: An officially impressed Crimea Medal with four clasps to ‘Geo. Fry, 11th Hussars’ was sold in D.N.W. 28 March 2002 for £1,800.