Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 842

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£330

Four: Private T. E. Wilkinson, Hampshire Regiment and Royal Engineers

1914-15 Star (17029 Pte., Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals (17029 Pte., Hamps. R.); Belgium, Croix de Guerre, ‘A’ cypher, mounted court style for wear, nearly extremely fine (4) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Hampshire Regiment.

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Croix de Guerre London Gazette 4 September 1919. ‘198226 Sapper Thom. Edgar Wilkinson, Royal Engineers (Redcar)’.

Thomas Edgar Wilkinson, formerly of the 11th Reserve Cavalry Regiment, entered the Egypt theatre of war with the Hampshire Regiment on 24 August 1915. Later, as a Sapper with the Royal Engineers he was awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre. He was transferred to the “Z” Class Reserve in March 1919. Sold with copied gazette extract and m.i.c.