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Crimea medals go for auction

Sunday 28 June 1998 23:02 BST
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Crimea medals go for auction

THE MEDALS of two brothers who fought in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War are to be sold at auction. On October 25 1854, Cornet Maxwell Goad was injured at Balaclava and later in the day his brother, Captain Thomas Goad, was killed.The brothers' Crimea and other medals are expected to fetch pounds 5,000.

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