A watch belonging to a survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade battle has sold for almost £7,000.
The William IV silver pocket watch was owned by Captain Thomas Everard-Hatton, who wore it during the Battle of Balaclava in 1854.
He was captain in the 4th Light Dragoons and shot through the right thigh during the advance of the Light Brigade.
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His left thigh was later severely wounded.
Sadly, his horse did not survive, as reported by What’s The Jam.
After treatment at Scutari and Malta, the site of a major British military hospital where Florence Nightingale and her nurses worked, Hatton returned to Britain in March 1855.
He received his Crimea War Medal from Queen Victoria at the presentation ceremony on Horse Guards Parade in May 1855.
He retired from the Army as brevet-major by sale of his commission in 1857.
Numerous items of uniform and other associated items including his sword and shako – a tall, cylindrical military cap – are in the care of the National Army Museum, Chelsea.
The inscription on the pocket watch reads: “Worn by / Capt Thos Hatton / 4th L Dns / at the / Balaclava Charge / 1854.”
It was sold for £6,875 by Olympia Auctions on the weekend of 25-26 June in Kensington, west London.
A spokesperson said: “Hatton’s remarkable survival story and the survival of this very watch through that battle, captured bidders’ imagination.”
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