Trumpet-Major Henry Joy & His Bugle

Messrs. Debenham, Storr, and Sons, at King-street, Covent-garden, yesterday, sold relics of the Balaclava Charge and a collection of naval and military war medals, &c. The principal lot was the bugle on which the late Trumpet-Major Joy (Staff Trumpeter to Lord Lucan) sounded the order for the Charge. The bugle, which is of copper, brass-mounted, and is inscribed, “Presented by the Colonel of the 17th Lancers to Trumpet-Major H. Joy, on which the Balaclava Charge was sounded on October 25, 1854”, was sold with Joy’s four medals, comprising the Crimean Medal, with bars for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol, the Turkish Crimean Medal, Long Service Medal, and the Distinguished Service Medal, and testimonials from Lord Lucan and others referring to the event. This interesting lot was put up at 50 guineas, and, after a keen compeition, was secured for 750 guineas by Mr Middlebrook amid applause. It was publicly stated by the purchaser that he intended to bequeath these relics to the 17th Lancers. Among the other medals were the following: Best Shot in the Army for 1873 medal, Private S. Whitby, 105th Foot, now the 2nd Battalion of the Yorkshire Light Infantry, £36; a Crimean Medal, with four clasps, Turkish Crimean Medal, Distinguished Conduct in the Field Medal, and enamelled Cross of the Legion of Honour, £16; gold medal commemorating the Proclamation of the Queen as Empress of India, £24; a gold Turkish Medal for Egypt, 1801, £21; a Peninsula Medal, with four clasps, Sabagun and Benevente, Vittoria, Orthes, and Toulouse, £15 5s.; an Indian Medal, 1799-1826, with clasp for the Battle of Kirkee, £16; a rare Medal of the Preston Volunteers, £23; silver Regimental Medal of the 77th Regiment, awarded for Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, £17; a curious bugle horn, with silver plate, inscribed 95th Rifle Battalion, 1st Company, 1804, 21 guineas (bought by an officer of the regiment).