Campaign Groups and Pairs 108


Pair: Sergeant James Flockhart, 2nd Dragoons, who probably charged with the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava


Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Serjt. J. Flockhart. 2nd Dragns.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (S. J. Flockhart 2nd Dragoons) regimentally impressed naming, plugged and fitted with replacement ring suspension, both fitted with silver ribbon buckles, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2)


£1,000-£1,200 Provenance: Christie’s, July 1983; Spink, July 1994.


James Flockhart was born in the Parish of Abby, Renfrew, and attested for the 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys) at Glasgow on 14 January 1850, aged 19 years 2 months, a groom by trade. He was promoted to Corporal on 10 May 1854, and to Sergeant on 15 July 1855. He is confirmed as being present on the musters for Balaklava and as having been sent sick to Scutari on 2 November 1854. The Scutari Muster Roll for January-March 1855 indicate that he was on a Hospital Ship in January and February. He was discharged at Edinburgh on 24 October 1861, ‘his being considered unfit for further military service.’ The surgeon’s report notes that ‘When on service in the Crimea was for a long time under treatment for intermittent fever,’ and paralysis ‘to be attributed to service in the Crimea.’


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Pair: Private W. Walker, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, who probably rode in the Charge of the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava, 25 October 1854


Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol, first clasp broken and at some point re-affixed to carriage (457 William Walker 6th. D) Regimentally engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, pierced, with ring and straight brooch bar suspension, both with Bailey, Coventry, decorative top silver ‘Eagle’ riband bars, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine, the latter better (2)


£700-£900


William Walker was born in Glougher, co. Tyrone, in 1816 and attested for the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons on 9 May 1836. He served with the Regiment in the Crimea, as part of the Heavy Brigade, and was present at the Battles of Balaclava and Inkermann, and the actions before Sebastopol. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £5, on 28 April 1859, and was discharged at his own request on 20 August 1861, after 25 years and 104 days’ service.


Walker’s name appears on the latest reconstructed list of ‘Chargers’ as having ‘probably rode in the Charge’: most members of the Heavy Brigade entitled to the Balaklava clasp, in the absence of any evidence or status details to the contrary, took part in the Charge, and it is only the absence of some definite proof that means Walker is listed as a probable Charger, rather then a definite Charger.


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