Crimean war (1854-5) medal awarded to Private William Davies, Coldstream Guards, with bars for the Siege of Sebastapol and the Battles of Balaklava and Inkerman. William was born in the tiny ...
Aged 14, he joined the East Surrey Army Cadets, and as soon as he reached the minimum age of 17 ½ he enlisted in the Coldstream Guards ... to be an instructor. In Egypt, rioting had resulted ...