Volunteer Force Long Service, V.R. (1491 Ord. Room Sergt. H. T. Banning, 1st Essex V.A. (E.D.R.A.)), engraved naming, mounted as worn, minor edge bruising, good very fine £60-80

With an extract from the 1881 British Census indicating Henry T. Banning, a Warehouseman, aged 39 years, was born in Paddington and lived at 74 High Street, West Ham, Essex, with his wife and five children; and an extract from the 1901 British Census indicating he was a Manufacturing Chemist’s Assistant, living at 74 High Street, Stratford City Mills.