Auction Catalogue

25 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1549

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£360

Three: Major G. W. Kinman, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

British War Medal 1914-20 (Major); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Major); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919, unnamed, complete with brooch bar, nearly extremely fine (3) £240-280

Listed in the November 1918 Army List as a Major, Unattached List, with the Hertford Grammar School Officers Training Corps. A note with the lot states 3rd Volunteer Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Sold with a letter to Major Kinman from the War Office, 21 February 1912; and a letter to Kinman from Field Marshal Earl Roberts, V.C., K.G., 22 January 1913, in which he thanks him for dedicating the song The Territorial Forces to him; together with sheet music of the song.