Pair: Private C. C. Adams, Hertfordshire Yeomanry

British War and Victory Medals (10540 Pte. C. C. Adams. Herts. Yeo.); together with the recipient’s Royal Horticultural Society Long Service Medal, bronze, with ‘50 Years’ Bar, the reverse engraved ‘C. C. Adams’, in original John Pinches case, with accompanying R.H.S. lapel badge, good very fine (3) £100-£140

Charles Christopher Adams was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire in 1894. In the 1911 Census he is noted as a seventeen year old nursery hand, at Flamstead End, Cheshunt. After service overseas in the Great War with 1/1 Hertfordshire Yeomanry, he returned to his gardening career, and he is still a resident of Cheshunt in the 1939 Register, where he is recorded as a ‘Nurseryman - Roses’.

The Royal Horticultural Society Long Service Medal was instituted in 1958. It is bestowed upon any man or woman of British Nationality, resident in the United Kingdom, who has completed 40 years’ continuous satisfactory employment as a gardener or in some other horticultural capacity with one employer or family, or in one place, with Bars being awarded for fifty or sixty years service.