Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Edwd. Neille, 8th Hussars) officially impressed naming, good very fine £1400-1800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Gordon Everson.

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Ex Hamilton-Smith 1927 and Dalrymple White 1946, and sold by Sotheby in February 1879 and July 1975 (“possibly rode in the charge but participation has not been proved”), and by Glendining’s in June 1921 and July 1924.

Edward Neille was born in Ireland in 1824, and enlisted at Maryborough on 11 June 1847. He embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. Shooting Star on 25 April 1854, and was present at Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann and Sebastopol. He transferred to the 2nd Dragoon Guards at Dundalk on 31 December 1856, and served in India from November 1857 until invalided to England in December 1858, but did not receive an Indian Mutiny medal. He died at Canterbury on 25 December 1859.

The 8th Hussars had two officers and 17 men killed, and three officers and 30 men wounded in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava on 25 October 1854.