Thirteen: Frederick Thorogood, Page of the Presence in the Royal Household, late King’s Company, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards

1914 Star (14157 Pte. F. G. Thorogood, 1/G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (14157 Pte., G. Gds.); Defence Medal; Royal Victorian Medal, Bronze, E.VII.R.; Coronation 1911; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, E.II.R., suspension dated ‘1937 1957’ (Frederick G. Thorogood); Italy, Royal Service Medal, Victor Emanuelle III, silver; France, Medal of Honour, silver; Ethiopia, Haile Selassie Service Medal, silver; Portugal, Silver Medal for the President’s State Visit to London 1955, mounted court style, the earlier medals polished, fine, otherwise good very fine (13) £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Frederick George Thorogood was born on 3 February 1889, in Boreham, near Chelmsford, Essex. He joined the Grenadier Guards at Colchester on 6 January 1909, and gained his first medal, the Royal Victorian Medal in Bronze, at the Funeral of King Edward VII in 1910, when he was a Private in the King’s Company of the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. The following year he received the Coronation Medal of King George V. He served with the British Expeditionary Force in France from 4 October 1914 to 1 October 1918, during which period he was employed as an officer’s servant. Thorogood left the Army on 5 January 1921, and probably spent the next 16 years ‘in service’. On 1 April 1937, he joined the Royal Household, and here he served for the next 26 years, rising to become a Page of the Presence and retiring on 31 May 1963.

Sold with original documents including 3rd Class Certificate of Education, Great War discharge certificates, named certificates for 1953 Coronation Medal and Portuguese award, this also with Buckingham Palace letter giving Restricted Permission to wear the medal.