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Auction: 6025 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 267

A Crimea Group of Three to Troop Sergeant Major W. Dawn, 8th Hussars, Who Charged with the Light Brigade at Balaklava, 25th October 1854 Crimea 1854-56, three clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Central India (Tp. Sgt. Major. Wm. Dawn, 8th Hussars.); Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, pierced as issued, with rings, light contact marks overall, therefore very fine or better (3) Estimate £ 2,400-2,8001180 Troop Sergeant Major William Dawn; lived at 3, Raberly Street, Bromley-by-Bow, London; enlisted 8th Hussars 1851; embarked for the Crimea in the H.T. Mary Anne, 19.4.1854; in-patient Scutari 1.9.1854 and 12.12.1854; discharged in India, 1860; attended First Balaklava Banquet, 25.10.1875; member of the Balaklava Commemoration Society 1879; attended the Annual Dinners in 1890 and 1897; in later life he received financial help from the T.H. Roberts Fund, who paid for his funeral expenses when he died, 23.9.1904.

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