Light Brigade Crimea medal to make $6,500 on September 5?

A Crimea Medal awarded to J Birmington, a member of the legendary Light Brigade, is to auction at W&H Peacock on September 5.

It's valued at £3,000-4,000 ($4,972-6,630).  

Light Brigade
The Light Brigade charged against a heavily defended artillery battery in the battle of Balaclava

The charge took place on October 25, 1854 during the Battle of Balaclava. A misheard order led to the loss of hundreds of English brigadiers as they raced into a heavily defended valley to assault an artillery battery.

The tragic incident was immortalised in Tennyson's poem The Charge of the Light Brigade, which contains the famous lines: "Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred."

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