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 ...

THE last surviving relative of a Guernsey-born First World War hero believes that his story has gone largely untold due to an administrative error more than a century ago.

The medal is hand-made, traditionally using bronze taken from a gun captured in the Crimean War of the 1850s. Created in 1856, the medal recognises acts of extreme bravery in military conflicts ...