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Auction: 20002 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Space Exploration
Lot: 272

A Crimea and Kaffir War campaign group of four awarded to Colour-Sergeant D. Osborne, Rifle Brigade, later a Chelsea Pensioner and lamp lighter

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (C---- D. Osborn. 1st. Btn. Rifle B-----); South Africa 1853 (---t D. Osborne. 1st Bn. Rifle Bde.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., erased; Turkish Crimea Medal 1855, Sardinian issue, the first and second officially impressed with erasure to rank and wear to naming of Regiment of first, nearly very fine (4)

David Osborne was born in 1821 at Wiggington, near Tring in Hertfordshire. Attesting for the Rifle Brigade at Tring on 21 February 1839, he witnessed five years' service in Malta and the Ionian Islands, a further five years stationed at the Cape of Good Hope and two years in the Crimea and at Malta. Promoted Corporal on 1 January 1848, he was advanced Sergeant on 17 November 1852 and Colour Sergeant on 1 April 1855, before being discharged at his own request on 5 June 1860:

'He would have been in possession of four Good Conduct Badges had he not been Sergeant… He has never been tried by Court Martial' (the recipient's service papers, refer).
Described as '40 years of age, height 5 feet 7 inches, light brown hair and grey eyes with a fresh complexion' upon discharge, Osborne returned to his wife at 72 New Road, South Mimms, Middlesex, England. The 1881 census for England records him as a 60-year-old Chelsea Pensioner and lamp lighter before his death at Barnet in September 1885; sold with copied service record and roll for the South Africa 1853 Medal which confirms service in the Second and Third Kaffir Wars.


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Sold for
£800

Starting price
£320