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Auction: 22075 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 22

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (T. Ellis. 11th Hussars), officially impressed naming, good very fine

Thomas Ellis, of Salford in Lancashire and noted as a boilermaker prior to his enlistment, signed up for service in the 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars on 10 December 1846. For some time prior to the campaign, their Commanding Officer was the infamous Thomas Brudenell, Lord Cardigan, who as Major-General commanded the Light Brigade in the Crimea and led them on their renowned charge against the Russian guns in the "Valley of Death".
Like too many of his comrades Ellis never returned home, dying on 16 June 1855 in camp at Kadikoi, of cholera (Honour the Light Brigade, p. 157, refers).

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