Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Captain S. Hollins-Fisher, Middlesex Regiment, late London Regiment, who died on 28 September 1918

1914 Star, with clasp (2492 Pte. S. H. Fisher, 9/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. S. Hollins-Fisher); Memorial Plaque (Sydney Hollins-Fisher), this fitted on a wooden base for mounting on a wall, extremely fine (4) £500-600

Private Sydney Hollin Fisher, 1st/9th London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles), entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 4 November 1914. He was later commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion Middlesex Regiment and was seconded to serve with the 24th (Garrison) Battalion Rifle Brigade in India. Attaining the rank of Captain, he died on active service on 28 September 1918, aged 27 years, whilst serving with the Sialkot Brigade. His name is commemorated on the Kirkee Memorial.

Sold with card boxes of issue for the three Great War medals, complete with registered envelope addressed to ‘W. Fisher Esq, 17 Ridley Road, Harlesden, N.W.10’; Memorial Plaque accompanying slip, commemorative scroll and a copy of orders transferring 2nd Lieutenant Hollins-Fisher to Abbottabad, June 1917. Also with copied m.i.c. and other research and a wooden bowl.