Crimea 3 clasps with Balaklava, 4th Light Dragoons, officially impressed, a ‘Charger’ mortally wounded in the charge at Balaklava, 25/11/1854 and died in the Regimental Camp on 9 December 1854.

Crimea, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann

Joseph Phillips. 4th Lt. Dragns.

Officially impressed naming

He was mortally wounded in the charge at Balaklava, 25/11/1854 and died in the Regimental Camp on 9 December 1854.

Sotheby’s, July 1926. Spink, March 1996,

Joseph Phillips was born in Buckinghamshire circa 1832. A chair maker by trade he enlisted into the 4th Light Dragoons (4th Hussars) on 11 January 1849, and served with the regiment in the Crimea in 1854