Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (W. Gillett. 4th. Dragoon Grds.) officially impressed naming, edge bruise and minor edge nicks and contact marks, very fine £1,000-£1,400

Glendining’s, May 1992.

William Gillett is confirmed by the muster rolls as being on active duty with his regiment for the whole of the quarter of 1 October to 31 December 1854, and it is most probable, therefore, that he took part in the famous charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava on 25 October 1854; most members of the Heavy Brigade entitled to the Balaklava clasp, in the absence of any evidence or status details to the contrary, took part in the charge. He entered the Hospital at Scutari in January 1855, and died on 14 February 1855.