Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, E.VII.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1903, the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘3 V/B West Riding Regt. Col. H. D. Sichel. Jany 26 1884. May 3 1904.’, with integral top riband bar, nearly extremely fine £100-£140

Henry Daniel Sichel was born in Horton, Bradford, around 1861, the son of German-born Victor Sylvestor Sichel who hailed from Frankfurt. Appointed to a commission in the West Riding Volunteers on 26 January 1884, Sichel was raised Captain on 24 September 1887 whilst serving as Supply and Transport Officer at Cliffe Hall, Darlington. Promoted Major on 11 August 1897, he was transferred to Regimental Headquarters at Skipton in Craven in 1903 and awarded the Volunteer Officers’ Decoration on 3 May 1904.

Sold with the recipient’s original 1884 commission document, a fine photograph of the recipient as a young man in London, and a City of Bradford ‘Memorial Exhibition of Works’ catalogue by the artist Ernest Sichel, dated 1941.