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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1263

Family Group: Three: Trumpeter G.A. Stacey, 1st Royal Dragoons, Severely Wounded in the Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava, 24.10.1854 Crimea 1854-56, two clasps, Balaklava, Sebastopol, last clasp loose or riband (Trmptr. G. Stacey. 1st Rl. Dragoons), officially impressed, with contemporary silver foliate top riband bar; Volunteer Long Service & G.C., V.R., unnamed; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, contemporarily engraved in upright serif capitals, ´Trumr. George Stacey 1st Royal Dragoons´, pierced for ring suspension, as issued, with contemporary silver riband buckle, 1st and last awards with edge bruising, nearly very fine, 2nd award good very fine Pair: Aircraft Mechanician 1st Class G.H. Stacey, Royal Naval Air Service British War and Victory Medals (F.13077 G.H. Stacey A.M. 1 R.N.A.S.), extremely fine, in original named card box of issue (5) Estimate £ 800-1,200 Trumpeter George Andrew Stacey was one of four Trumpeters in the 1st Royal Dragoons at Balaklava, another being William Samuel Tracey (probably a relation); he was severely wounded in the Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava, 25.10.1854, and was one of ten casualties suffered there by the regiment, he spent 43 days recovering from his wounds at Scutari. G.A. Stacey´s Crimea Medal originally had the Inkermann clasp, to which he was not entitled, this was removed from the medal to leave his correct entitlement.

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