Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Wm. Holland. 4th Lt. Dragns.) officially impressed naming, last clasp loose as issued, nearly extremely fine £1,800-£2,200

Glendining’s, March 1930.

William Holland was born at Stafford and was a shoemaker prior to his enlistment on 1 August 1851. He was admitted to hospital at Scutari on 15 December 1854, and died there on 11 March 1855.

There is no evidence to prove that this man took part in the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. However, an old label attached to the medal has written in ink ‘Tpr. Wm. Holland was in the second line on the right in the Charge of the Light Brigade.’