Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (H. Burgess, 11th Hussars), officially impressed naming, edge nicks, otherwise good very fine £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Darwent.

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Ex Hamilton Smith collection 1927.

Henry Burgess was born at Bromley, Kent and enlisted at London in April 1846, aged 19 years. Present at Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann and Sebastopol, he died at Scutari hospital on 21 January 1855, but he remains an “unconfirmed charger”.