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Pictured: The medal set awarded to Major General John Douglas includes The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) fitted with wide gold suspension bar, Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Lt. Colonel J Douglas. 11th Hussars.), France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, Chevalierís breast badge, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue. <br />
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The medals of a fearless army officer who took on the entire Russian army during the doomed Charge of the Light Brigade have sold for over £47,000.<br />
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Major General John Douglas led over 100 men as they galloped towards the enemy at the Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854.