Three: Farrier W. Hood, 2nd Dragoons, a Heavy Brigade Man, Crimea, three clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Farrier, 2nd Dns.), regimentally engraved naming; Army Long Service and Good Conduct, V.R., large letters (No. 446 Farrier, 2nd Dragoons); Turkish Crimea, British die (Pt., 2nd Dgs.), engraved naming, slight contact wear and edge bruising, very fine and better, the first two with contemporary riband buckles (3)

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Three: Farrier W. Hood, 2nd Dragoons, a Heavy Brigade Man, Crimea, three clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Farrier, 2nd Dns.), regimentally engraved naming; Army Long Service and Good Conduct, V.R., large letters (No. 446 Farrier, 2nd Dragoons); Turkish Crimea, British die (Pt., 2nd Dgs.), engraved naming, slight contact wear and edge bruising, very fine and better, the first two with contemporary riband buckles (3)

拍品專文

Farrier William Hood was born near Kilmarnock, Ayrshire and attested for the Royal Artillery at Dublin in August 1832, aged 20 years. Transferring to the 2nd Dragoons in November of the following year, he went on to serve in the Crimea and was present at the Battles of Balaklava and Inkermann, in addition to the operations before Sebastopol (P.R.O. WO 97/1287 refers). Subsequently admitted to Scutari, Hood was invalided to England and was discharged at Newbridge Barracks, Midlothian in October 1856, as a result of 'chronic rheumatism of long standing resulting from exposure to the cold'.