Lot Archive

Lot

№ 342

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19 April 1995

Hammer Price:
£50

Lloyd’s War Memorial 1914-19, Portraits of Lloyd’s Men who appear on Lloyd’s War Memorial, contains over 200 portraits of Members, Annual Subscribers etc. who fell in the Great War, with separate 1921 Appendix, programme for the unveiling of the War Memorial, and a fascinating printed NOTICE - “Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener, G.C.B., proposes to raise a Battalion from the Stock Exchange, Lloyd’s, the Baltic etc., on the same lines as the C.I.V. Regiment, which was raised during the Boer War...... 21st August, 1914” binding a little distressed on the first, otherwise good condition