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Auction: 6017 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 290

The Highly Emotive and Well Documented Crimea Group of Three to Sergeant E. Hindley, 13th Light Dragoons, Later 7th Hussars, Who Charged with the Light Brigade at Balaklava, 25th October 1854 Crimea 1854-56, four clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Edward Hendley (sic) 13th Light Dragoons), regimentally impressed; Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Lucknow (Corpl. Edwd. Hendley. (sic) 7th Husrs.); Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die type, contemporarily engraved in serif capitals ´Edward Hendley. (sic) 13th Light Dragoons.´, with Mutiny style suspension, very fine or better, with contemporary silver riband bar, portrait photograph of recipient wearing his medals and large wooden frame for the former, and an original letter from Hindley´s widow to the ´TH Roberts Fund´, dated 1912 (3) Estimate £ 6,500-7,500Private Edward Hindley; lived at 17 Granby Street, Liverpool; member of the Balaklava Commemoration Society,1879; attended the Annual Dinners in 1895, 1897, 1906, 1909 and 1910; in later life he received financial help from the T.H. Roberts Fund, who paid for his funeral expenses when he died in 1911, and also helped to support his widow. He bequeathed his medals to the fund as a token of his gratitude, ´Dear Sir, My promise I have fulfilled I herewith send you the medals belonging to my dear late husband. I feel sure they will be cared for and will always remain in your family. It was his wish that if anything happened to him you was to have them: he did pride himself with them when he was coming up to London´ (Letter from recipient´s widow refers). Muster Rolls at variance between ´Hindley´ and ´Hendley´, however both are given with the same regimental number ´1540´ for the 13th Light Dragoons.

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