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Auction: 24002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 146

The Crimea Medal awarded to Private J. Brunton, 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars, who was killed in the charge at Balaklava

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Alma, Balaklava (Joseph Brunton. 11th Hussars), officially impressed naming, good very fine

Provenance:
Ex-Macphail Massie Collection, September 1961, and J. B. Hayward, March 1970.

Joseph Brunton was born at Leeds, Yorkshire, and enlisted there into the 11th Hussars on 21 December 1843, aged 18, a groom by trade. He was tried by a District Court-martial at Nottingham in February 1852 for ‘being absent - and losing his necessaries’ and sentenced to 112 days' imprisonment, with hard labour. He was tried by a Regimental Court-martial in September 1854 for ‘disobedience of orders’ and this time sentenced ‘to be given 50 lashes.’

Brunton embarked with his regiment for the Crimea and was killed in action at Balaklava, 25 October 1854.

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Starting price
£4000