Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family group:

Four: Private T. Howarth, Coldstream Guards

1914 Star, with clasp (10679 Pte., C. Gds.;) British War and Victory Medals (10679 Pte., C. Gds.); Belgium, King Albert I Veteran’s Cross, unnamed

Seven: Warrant Officer Class I A. T. Howarth, Royal Artillery

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (754544 W.O. Cl.1, R.A.), service number and rank officially re-impressed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (754544 W.O. Cl.1, RA.), part of service number officially re-impressed, this group mounted as worn on two bars, good very fine (11) £260-300

Group to Thomas Howarth sold with certificate of award for the veteran’s cross, dated 17 August 1971; newspaper cutting bearing a photo of the recipient, with the caption, ‘Pte. T. Howarth, 1st Coldstream Guards, 17, Brook Street, Reading. - Wounded’; and copied m.i.c. showing confirmation of the three British medals, date of entry into the war as 11 September 1915, entitlement to the Silver War Badge and the issuance of a duplicate clasp.