Auction Catalogue

29 March 2000

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 272

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29 March 2000

Hammer Price:
£60

Regimental Prize Medals, in silver (5), comprising struck medals (3), 38mm, obverse inscribed ‘1/5th Sherwood Forresters (Cock Platoon) France 1919’, reverse inscribed ‘“A” Coy. No.4 Platoon, winners’, additionally engraved ‘103056 Pte. W. J. Taylor’; 32mm, with loop suspension, obverse with profile of Wakefield to centre and inscribed ‘Colonel Sir Charles Cheers Wakefield, Lord Mayor of London 1915-16’, reverse with military scene and inscribed ‘The Home Counties Cadet Battalions Football Association’, edge engraved ‘Private J. Attree’; 32mm, hallmarks for Birmingham 1916, obverse with Hampshire Regiment badge, below which is engraved ‘1917’; reverse depicting a soldier marching and inscibed ‘Marching competition’, ; together with engraved medals (2), 38mm, hallmarks for Birmingham 1910, obverse engraved ‘Rifle shooting competition won by Sgt. Major J. C. Davies, May 1916’, reverse engraved ‘9th L.A.M.B., M.M.G.S. somewhere in France’; 32mm, hallmarks for Birmingham 1917, with double loop suspension, obverse wreath within which is engraved ‘Pte. J. Gothard’; reverse engraved ‘3rd Cav. Div. Armistice cup D. Squadron, 17th Lancers, Belgium 1919’ generally good very fine or better (5) £60-80