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

№ 953

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15 December 2011

Hammer Price:
£620

Three: Chauffeur W. M. Jane, No. 2 Motor Ambulance Unit, British Red Cross Society & Order of St. John of Jerusalem

1914 Star (W. H. Jane, B.R.C.S. & O. St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (W. H. Jane, B.R.C.S. & O. St. J.J.) nearly extremely fine (3) £240-280

William Henry Jane (Junior), B.R.C.S. & O. St. J.J. entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a Chauffeur with No. 2 Motor Ambulance Unit on 6 November 1914. The chauffeurs drove their employer’s cars which had been lent to the Ambulance Unit.

With copied m.i.c. and a copied medal roll of chauffeurs of No. 2 Motor Ambulance Unit awarded the 1914 Star. With other related research.