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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 994

The Crimea Medal to Lieutenant J. St. C. Hobson, 7th Foot, The Subject of a V.C. Award, Who Was, Despite the Gallant Rescue Attempts by Lieutenant W. Hope, of the Same Regiment, Mortally Wounded in the First Attack on the Redan, 8.6.1855; Lieutenant Hope Was Later Awarded the Victoria Cross For This Act of Bravery Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Alma (Lieut. & Adjt. J.St.C. Hobson. 7th Regt), officially impressed, edge bruising, therefore very fine, with contemporary sliver top riband bar by T.B. Bailey, Coventry Estimate £ 800-1,000 Lieutenant J. St. Clair Hobson, commissioned Ensign 7th Regiment, 1847; Lieutenant and Adjutant 1854; the Army Lists for the period give Hobson as being slightly wounded at the Alma, however this is at variance with the latest published casualty roll; he was in action once again at the first attack on the Redan, and it was here that he was mortally wounded, 18.6.1855, despite the gallant attempts of Lieutenant William Hope to rescue him, for which Hope was to be awarded the Victoria Cross: V.C. London Gazette 5.5.1857 William Hope, Lieut., the 7th Regt. Date of act of bravery: 18.6.1855. ´After the troops had retreated on the morning of the 18th June, 1855, Lieutenant W. Hope, being informed by the late Sergeant-Major William Bacon, who was himself wounded, that Lieutenant & Adjutant Hobson was lying outside the trenches, badly wounded, went out to look for him, and found him lying in the old Agricultural Ditch running towards the left flank of the Redan. He then returned and got four men to bring him in. Finding, however, that Lieutenant Hobson could not be removed without a stretcher, he then ran back across the open to Egerton´s Pit, where he procured one, and carried it to where Lieutenant Hobson was lying. All this was done under a very heavy fire from the Russian batteries.´ There is a painting depicting the attempted rescue in the Royal Fusiliers Museum, Tower of London.

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