Auction Catalogue

15 December 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 524

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15 December 2011

Hammer Price:
£430

Four: Private A. Spilsbury, Army Service Corps

1914-15 Star (M2-033096 Pte., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M2-033096 Pte., A.S.C.); Serbia, Oblitch Bravery Medal, 31mm., gilt base metal, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (4) £250-300

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

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Serbia, Gold Medal London Gazette 15 February 1917.


Private Arthur Spilsbury, A.S.C. entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 15 March 1915. Latterly served with H.Q. Light Armoured Car Brigade - having driven Wolsely, Talbot, Ford and Rolls Royce vehicles. Awarded the Serbian Bravery Medal in ‘Gold’. Later transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve.



With original Certificate of Employment during the War; fragmentary Routine Orders extract re the award of the Serbian medal; five original photographs - one signed, of the recipient; another beside an armoured car; the others featuring the ‘Spilsbury Brothers Strongford Garage’; together with copied m.i.c. and gazette extracts.