Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (P. Bury, 11th Hussars), engraved naming, some edge bruising, very fine £500-700

1452 Private P. Bury, 11th Hussars, was born at Christchurch, Hampshire and enlisted in November 1849. Bury served in the Crimea and was awarded a four clasp medal with impressed naming, stated by Lummis & Wynn to be in the Glasgow Art Gallery, 1913. From the same work, he was on Letter Duty from 1st April to 30th June 1855, deserted on 23rd June 1858 but rejoined on 12th March 1859. Bury’s name appears in the 1877 list of members of the Balaklava Commemoration Society but does not appear in the revised list of 1879.