Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Frank Gordon, a stalker on the Balmoral Estate

Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.V.R., suspension dated ‘1910-1930’, with ‘Thirty Years’ Bar, the reverse of which is officially inscribed ‘G.R. VI’ (F. Gordon); Coronation 1911; Royal Victorian Medal, G.V.R., silver; Jubilee 1935, mounted as worn (in this order), generally very fine and scarce (4) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Series of Royal Household Faithful Service Medals.

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Frank Gordon, who served as a stalker on the Balmoral Estate, was awarded his Royal Victorian Medal in October 1928 and his ‘Thirty Years’ Bar on 6 May 1940. During the Great War, from February 1916, he served in the U.K. in an Agricultural Company of the Gordon Highlanders (Territorials).