Auction Catalogue

31 March 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 660

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31 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£1,200

Family group:

Three
: Captain Sir Pryce Victor Pryce-Jones, Welsh Horse, 2nd Baronet

1914-15 Star (Capt., Welsh H.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.)

The 1939-45 War Medal to Lieutenant John Pryce Hardie Morris Vaughan, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, attached 7th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, who died on 28 December 1944

War Medal 1939-45, unnamed, extremely fine (4) £500-600

Pryce Victor Pryce-Jones was born on 10 June 1887, the son of Colonel Edward Pryce-Jones and Beatrice, daughter of Herbert Hardie of Orford House, Cheshire. Colonel Pryce-Jones was an M.P. for Montgomery District, 1895-1906, and was Hon. Major, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry and Lieutenant-Colonel and Hon. Colonel Commanding the 5th Volunteer Battalion South Wales Borderers, which he raised. Colonel Pryce-Jones was created a Baronet in 1918. Pryce Victor Pryce-Jones was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion South Wales Borderers, 1904-08 and as a Captain in the 7th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, July 1908-December 1914 and Captain in the Welsh Horse, December 1914-June 1921.

With the onset of the Great War he was listed as a Captain in King George’s Own Central India Horse and was later a Captain in the Welsh Horse, attached to the 2/1st Cheshire Yeomanry. Captain Pryce-Jones entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 3 April 1915, remaining there until August 1916 and was there again during May-July 1917. He succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet in 1918. Captain Sir Pryce Victor Pryce-Jones, then living at ‘Dolern, Newtown, North Wales’, finally left the T.A. Reserve of Officers in 1937. Latterly living at The Manor House, Great Ryburgh, near Fakenham, Norfolk; Sir Pryce Victor Pryce-Jones died on 27 February 1963. With named card boxes of issue for his three medals and copied service papers and other research in a folder.

Lieutenant John Pryce Hardie Morris Vaughan, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, attached 7th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, died on 28 December 1944, aged 20 years. He was buried in the Kirkee War Cemetery, India. He was the son of Captain Edward Harold Vaughan, M.C. and nephew of Sir Pryce Victor Pryce-Jones, 2nd Baronet. With card forwarding box addressed to ‘Capt. Sir V. Pryce-Jones, The Manor House, Great Ryburgh, Fakenham, Norfolk’; with named condolence slip to ‘Lieutenant J. P. H. M. Vaughan’.