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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 477

A most unusual Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal awarded to Colour-Sergeant J. Hazlewood, Grenadier Guards, who served as Military Tutor to the future King Edward VII

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (4785 Serjt. Josh. Hazlewood Grenr. Guards), minor edge nicks, good very fine

Joseph Hazlewood was born around 1826 at Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, and attested for the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards on 10 February 1845. A labourer by trade, he was promoted Corporal on 3 August 1847 and Sergeant on 31 March 1853. Appointed Colour-Sergeant, he later became Military Tutor to the Price of Wales at the 16th Century Madingley Hall. Surrounded by parkland, Queen Victoria rented the Hall in 1860 for her son to live in while he was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge (Institute of Continuing Education: Madingley Hall, refers). The Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Gazette of 1 June 1861 describe the circumstances:

'His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will employ his Midsummer vacation in military studies, and has accordingly placed himself under Colour-Sergeant Joseph Hazlewood, of the Grenadier Guards, who will attend His Royal Highness twice a week at Madingley. Sergeant (sic) Joseph Hazlewood is the third son of a journeyman carpenter, of Cheveley, near Bury, and one of two brothers who joined the Grenadier Guards about seventeen years ago. The tutor to his Royal Highness has been allowed to keep a public-house at Cambridge, and was appointed drill-sergeant to the University Corps, and his brother has been similarly engaged at Derby.'

Hazlewood married Mary Ann West at Cambridge on 25 August 1862, and the couple lived at Wheeler Street in the City. He was discharged at London of his own request on 18 June 1866. The proceedings of the Regimental Board note on his discharge papers:

'Very good. He would, had he not been Sergeant, have been in possession of five good conduct badges. He has never been entered in the Regimental Defaulters Book or Tried by Court Martial.'

He died in 1890 and was buried in Cambridgeshire on 17 February 1890; sold with copied service papers and research.


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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£130