MILITARIA 678
6TH (INNISKILLING) DRAGOONS AND THE ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS, two well executed mounted full dress figures showing officers c. 1871-1901, 17.6 x 12.5 cm., both are inscribed ‘R. SIMKIN’, now contained in glazed wooden frames, very good condition (2)
£60-80 679
RARE ORIGINAL CRIMEANWAR PERIOD CORRESPONDENCE, including two letters addressed to Lieut. Gen. Sir James Yorke Scarlett KCB, Commanding Cavalry, one dated 21st June, 1855, the other 21st October, 1855, one signed by Richard Airey concerning arrangements for cavalry orderly duties, returns and requisitions for equipment etc., together with signatures of Light Division Commanders Sir George Brown, Sir William Codrington and Lord William Paulet, also a later signature for Sir Colin Campbell, very good condition
£100-140 680
CAMPAIGN CUTLERY SET TO JAMES THOMAS BRUDENELL, 7TH AND LAST EARL OF CARDIGAN 1797-1868, an extremely fine cased set in silver plate and ivory by Joseph Mappin & Brothers, comprising a fork, knife and spoon, the latter includes a corkscrew, all three utensils bear an earl’s coronet and monogram initials JB on the hafts, the spoon and fork are impressed with Mappin’s initials and the journeyman’s mark of a seven pointed star, the knife is stamped on the blade “Joseph Mappin & Brothers” and additionally on the forte “Queen’s Cutlery Works Sheffield”, contained in the original velvet lined leather covered travelling case, near mint state (3)
£1500-2000
James Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan held successive commissions in the 8th, 15th and 11th Hussars. Despite various career set-backs he nevertheless commanded the Light Brigade of Cavalry in the Crimean War and led it in the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade in November 1854. He later achieved the rank of Lieutenant General and was a General Officer of Hussars. He famously “went to war” in his private yacht and this campaign set could well have been used during this period.
681
THE KING’SGERMAN LEGION, 1st & 2nd Dragoon Regiments, a most rare and possibly unique officer’s frontal plate for the 1818 pattern heavy cavalry helmet, in die-stamped hallmarked silver, London 1818, maker’s mark ‘JA’ or possibly ‘NA’, the multi rayed plate with raised designs comprising the Royal Arms of Great Britain (1813-37), a Guelphic crown, and four battle honour scrolls ‘Peninsula’, ‘Waterloo’, ‘Garzia’ ‘Hernandez’, the plate retains its convex shape, three ray finials missing and a few small fractures around the central design, and on one ray slight surface wear to the central escutcheon
£1800-2200
On the day following the battle of Salamanca, the 1st and 2nd Light Dragoons earned the battle honour ‘Garcia Hernandez’ for an incident unique in the annals of British military history. During the French retreat, these two regiments charged and destroyed in succession three regiments of Foy’s rearguard, formed in three squares, which were supported by six pieces of artillery. A regiment of infantry formed in square, bristling with bayonets and with devastating fire-power on all sides, was believed to be impervious to attack from cavalry. For cavalry to break a square was unheard of. Eyewitnesses stated that after the action the dragoons, supporting their wounded, made their way slowly to the rear through the cheering ranks of the famous Light Division. Wellington, seldom lavish in his praise, wrote in his official despatch “I have never witnessed a more gallant charge than was made upon the enemy’s infantry by the heavy brigade of the King’s German Legion under Major General von Bock, which was completely successful and the whole body of infantry, consisting of three battalions of the enemy’s first division, were made prisoners.” Three weeks later, all officers of the K.G.L. were granted permanent rank in the British Army.
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