Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Cuban and Philippine 1898-1902 campaign group of four awarded to Private E. H. Swinley, United States Army

U.S.A., Cuban Army of Occupation Medal 1898-1902 (M. No. 514), full-wrap brooch for wearing, in original numbered card box of issue; U.S.A., Philippine Insurrection Medal 1899, Army issue (M. No. 3929), full-wrap brooch for wearing, in original numbered card box of issue; Veterans of the Army of the Philippines Medal, bronze, clasp, ‘Swinton I.’, by Schwaab, Milwaukee, complete with brooch-bar for wearing, and an associated lapel badge; United Spanish War Veterans Medal, bronze, 3rd type, by Joseph Meyer, Seattle, complete with ornate brooch-bar for wearing, this latter impressed ‘B. 17176’, together with frayed red silk tally commemorating Manila Occupation Day, 13 August 1902, and General Henry W. Lawton’s Post, the whole contained in a cigar box with typed inscription to label on lid, ‘Uncle Ned Swinley’s American medals which he gained as a Private soldier in the U.S. Army’, good very fine and better (4) £250-300

Edward H. “Ned” Swinley, the uncle of Captain Casper Swinley, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., appears to have served in Company ‘M’ of the 4th Virginia Volunteer Infantry (a.k.a. “Richmond Light Infantry Blues”) during the occupation of Cuba, which unit arrived at the island in December 1898, and departed in March 1899; sold with a signed carbon copy letter from Captain Casper Swinley, addressed to Spink & Son, dated 11 May 1974, in which he confirms his uncle served in the United States Army.