Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Surgeon Llewelyn Rl. Scots Greys) contemporarily engraved naming, 18mm, nearly extremely fine £600-£800

Note: The recipient’s full sized medals (comprising Crimea Medal with 4 clasps; Indian Mutiny Medal with clasp for Central India; and Turkish Crimea Medal) were sold in these rooms as part of the Colonel D. G. B. Riddick Collection of Medals to the Medical Services in September 2006.

Jenkin Homfray Llewelyn was born in Calcutta on 21 July 1821. Appointed an Assistant Surgeon with the 44th Foot in March 1848 and with the 7th Dragoon Guards in January 1850, he was promoted to Staff Surgeon 2nd Class in February 1855. He served throughout the Crimean War, including the battles of the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkermann, and the siege of Sebastopol, and was appointed Surgeon to the 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys) in January 1856. He transferred to the 8th Hussars in August 1858 and served in the Indian Mutiny, being present at the action at Boordah. He died at Tunbridge Wells on 15 May 1867.