Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Serjeant L. Hulme, Army Service Corps
1914 Star (MS-4624 Pte., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (MS-4624 Sjt., A.S.C.); France, Medal of Honour, 2nd Class with swords, silver, unnamed, good very fine

Imperial German Pickelhaube Plate. A good quality example standard gilding metal Prussian Infantry pattern but with additional top scroll ‘Waterloo’, complete with loop fasteners the plate is set within a very fine circular oak wood glazed frame. A plaque below the plate is engraved, ‘British Expeditionary Force/Prussian Guard’s Helmet/Badge/Found at Zonnebeke by/ 4524 Pte. Leonard Hulme. M.T. A.S.C./9th Nov. 1914.’, very good condition (5) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Army Service Corps.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 24 December 1917 (Haig).

France, Medal of Honour London Gazette 16 January 1920; correction London Gazette 17 March 1920.

Private Leonard Hulme, A.S.C., from Dollis Hill, London, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 6 October 1914. Mentioned in Haig’s despatch of 7 November 1917 and awarded the French Medal of Honour, 2nd Class with swords. With riband bar and copied M.I.D. certificate, m.i.c. and gazette extracts.