Dog Collar

Brief Description

This is the collar that belonged to "Jemmy", who served with The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars during The Crimean War 1854-56 and The Indian Mutiny 1857-59.

Jemmy, a rough-coated terrier, went all through the Charge of the Light Brigade when he was wounded in the neck by a splinter of a shell. He returned to England with the regiment, and at Dundalk Colonel De Salis gave him the collar. Jemmy wore it on field days.

He embarked with the regiment for India, and marched with them daily until after the engagement of the 14th of August, 1858.

Unfortunately he was drowned in September of the same year while crossing the River Chambal, the current proving too strong for him.

On the collar are the five clasps awarded to Jemmy for war service at Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, Sebastopol and Central India.