Pair: Captain Sir John Charrington, Army Service Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches, and was later knighted for his work in the coal industry

British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. J. Charrington.) nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£100

Sir John Charrington was born in 1886 and was educated at Haileybury. He served with the Army Service Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from June 1916, latterly as a Captain, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 14 June 1918). He went into the family business and was chairman of Charrington, Gardner, Locket & Co. (1940-67) and president from 1964 until his death in 1977. He was president of the Coal Merchants Federation of Great Britain (1930-31 and 1947-49); the National Society for Clean Air and the Coal Utilisation Council (1967-68); and was a member of the Carlton Club. For his services to the COal Industry he was knighted in the 1949 Birthday Honours’ List. (London Gazette 3 June 1949).

Sold with a copy of Two Centuries in the London Coal Trade: the story of Charringtons by Elspet Fraser-Stephen, privately published in 1952, the inside inscribed by Sir John Charrington.