Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Heavy Brigade group of three to Farrier William Hood, 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys)

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Farrier, 2nd Dns.) contemporary engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., large letter reverse (No. 446 Farrier, 2nd Dragoons) fitted with replacement Crimea suspension; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (Pt., 2nd Dgs.) contact wear and edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine and better (3) £800-1000

William Hood was born near Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, and attested for the Royal Artillery at Dublin in August 1832, aged 20 years. He transferred to the 2nd Dragoons in November 1833, and went on to serve in the Crimea, being present at the battles of Balaklava and Inkermann, and the siege and fall of Sebastopol (WO 97/1287 confirms medal and clasps). Subsequently admitted to Scutari, Hood was invalided to England and was discharged at Newbridge Barracks, Midlothian, in October 1856, as a result of ‘chronic rheumatism of long standing resulting from exposure to the cold.’