Orders, Decorations and Medals

The important family group to the Goad brothers, Captain Thomas Howard Goad, 13th Light Dragoons, killed in the charge, and Cornet George Maxwell Goad, 13th Light Dragoons, severely injured early in the day at Balaklava

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Capt. T. H. Goad, 13th Lt. Dns.) contemporary engraved naming

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Capt. George Maxwell Goad, 13th Lt. Drags.) contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, one of the contemporary privately produced types with ‘J.B.’ in the exergue, unnamed; together with companion miniature dress medals, the Crimea named, all four fitted with silver Hunt & Roskell ribbon brooch buckles, and attractively mounted in and old display frame with five small ‘XIII LD’ gilt uniform buttons, and a section of his gold-laced leather shoulder belt fitted with silver plate and two prickers, and two silver scrolls with gilt battle honours ‘Peninsula’ and ‘Waterloo’, all hallmarked London 1851, generally good very fine (5) £4000-5000

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The medal of Captain T. H. Goad was acquired privately in September 1976 from his great great nephew, to whom it had descended, and is accompanied by original letters concerning the transaction at that time. The medals and other items relating to Captain G. M. Goad were sold at Glendining’s in November 1965.

Thomas Howard Goad, stepson of the late General Sir Thomas Bradford, G.C.B., G.C.H., was originally commisioned Ensign in the 51st Foot, 4 July 1845, but transferred one week later to a Cornetcy in the 13th Light Dragoons. He was promoted Lieutenant in August 1847 and Captain in October 1850. He embarked for the Crimea aboard the Hired Transport Calliope in May 1854 and was killed in action in the Charge of the Light Brigade on 25 October 1854. In a letter Lieutenant Shawe Smith wrote: “The last I saw of poor Goad was just going into the guns on my left. He was killed dead, as the Russians sent back a bill of exchange found on his body.”

George Maxwell Goad was educated at Rugby and was commissioned Cornet in the 13th Light Dragoons in January 1852. He was severely injured early in the day at Balaklava when his horse was hit by a shell fragment as the cavalry moved westward after the loss of the Turkish redoubts, causing the animal to fall on him. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the following day, to Captain on 25 October 1855, and retired by sale of his commission on 18 January 1856. Captain Goad retired to Bournemouth where he died on 30 January 1894, and was buried in Wimborne Road Cemetery.