The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Darwent

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Tp.-Sjt.-Mjr. D. Mahoney, 13th Lt. Drgns.), officially impressed naming, with original Bailey of Coventry laurel riband fitment, suspension claw refixed, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine £600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Darwent.

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Ex Glendining’s 29 April 1909.

Daniel Mahoney was born at Killarney, Co. Kerry and enlisted in the 13th Light Dragoons at Dublin in January 1847, aged 21 years.

Advanced to Corporal in July 1852 and to Sergeant in May 1854, he was present at Alma and in the operations before Sebastopol. He was not, however, entitled to the ‘Balaklava’ clasp, even though the relevant musters show him as being present there with his regiment on the day of the charge. He is, moreover, among those named in a photograph of 13th Light Dragoon officers and N.C.Os reputedly taken on the morning after the charge, although recent research would strongly challenge this supposition. He was promoted to Troop Sergeant-Major in February 1855.

Awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in March 1868, Mahoney was discharged at Edinburgh in February 1871, giving his intended place of residence as Huddersfield. He appears in the 1877 membership list of the Balaklava Commemoration Society but not in the revised version of 1879, although he is thought to have died at Leeds in December 1878, aged 52 years.