Auction Catalogue

5 July 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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5 July 2011

Hammer Price:
£500

An inter-war military M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Warrant Officer Class 1 Alfred G. Wilde, Royal Field Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1929, on 2nd type military ribbon; 1914 Star, with copy clasp (6164 Sjt., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (6164 W.O. Cl. 2, R.A.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (6164 Sergt. A. G. Wilde, 35th Bty. R.F.A.) privately engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6164 B.S. Mjr., R.F.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue ‘Fid. Def.’ (1019397 W.O. Cl. 1, M.B.E., R.A.) mounted court style as worn, fine and better (8)
£400-500

M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1930. ‘Warrant Officer Class 1, Sergeant Major Alfred George Wilde, Royal Horse Artillery.’

Serjeant Alfred George Wilde, 11th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 7 November 1914. With copied gazette extracts and m.i.c. - the latter stating, ‘Ineligible for 14 clasp ...’