Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Royal Household group of eleven awarded to Private Frederick James Reed, Royal Army Medical Corps, later Yeoman of the Royal Cellar at Buckingham Palace

1914-15 Star (34424 Pte., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (34424 Pte., R.A.M.C.); Royal Victorian Medal, G.VI.R., silver; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these unnamed; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.VI.R., suspension dated ‘1919-1939’, with ‘Thirty Years’ clasp (Reed, Frederick James); Denmark, King’s Medal of Recompense, Christian X, silver; Belgium, Royal Household Medal, for Servants in Foreign Courts, Albert I, bronze; Sweden, Royal Household Medal, Gustaf V, silver with crown; France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, silver, these unnamed, mounted court style for wear, first three polished and worn, otherwise very fine and better (11) £1200-1500

Ex John Tamplin Collection.

Frederick James Reed was born in Hartfield, Sussex, on 12 January 1890. Serving in the Great War as a Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps, he entered the Egypt theatre of war on 14 March 1915. Reed entered into service with the Royal Household as a Footman in 1919. He retired in June 1950 when he was Yeoman of the Royal Cellar at Buckingham Palace. During his service he was awarded the Royal Household Faithful Service Medal in 1939, with the clasp in 1949. He was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal on 1 January 1945. Reed died in the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, on 23 January 1962, his death certificate giving his occupation as ‘1st Yeoman King’s Cellars’. Sold with research.