Auction Catalogue

4 & 5 December 2008

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1234

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5 December 2008

Hammer Price:
£600

Three: Acting Warrant Officer George Cave, 2nd Battalion, Royal Highlanders, who was awarded a Wauchope Medal for conspicuous good service in the Battle Beyond Bagdad on 14 March 1917

British War Medal 1914-20 (S-8492 A.W.O.Cl.2., R. Highrs.); Wauchope Medal, for The Battle Beyond Bagdad, reverse inscribed ‘Sergt. G. Cave, for conspicuous good service in the Battle Beyond Bagdad, March 14, 1917, Presented by Colonel A. G. Wauchope’, very fine or better and the last a rare type ‘consipuous good service’ inscription (2)

Acting Warrant Officer George Cave was awarded a Wauchope Medal for conspicuous good service at the Battle of Mushaidie on 14 March 1917 and the medal was presented to him at Moascar Camp, Egypt on 21 January 1918. He is additionally entitled to a Victory.