Auction Catalogue

18 May 2011

Starting at 12:00 PM

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The Collection of Medals Formed by Bill and Angela Strong

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 529

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18 May 2011

Hammer Price:
£360

Pair: Major E. G. Bedingfeld, Military Knight of Windsor, late South Staffordshire Regiment and 8th Hussars

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Capt. E. G. Bedingfeld, Staff); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed, very fine (2) £280-320

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Ernest Gordon Bedingfeld was born at Fort Elson, Gosport in March 1866, the son of Major-General Philip Bedingfeld. Formerly of the South Staffordshire Regiment and the 8th Hussars, he served as Special Officer for Mounted Infantry in South Africa in 1901, being graded as a D.A.A.G. Listed as wounded but not listed as such in the published roll, he was admitted as a Military Knight of Windsor in 1904 and died in December 1914.

Sold with a letter, embossed
Balmoral Castle, dated 16 October 1880, addressed to ‘My dear young friends (Ernest and Norman Bedingfeld), and signed ‘Melitta’ (Princess Victoria Melitta, wife of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt), and another letter, dated 25 March 1892, signed by Ernest Bedingfeld; together with several original photographs, copied record of service and other research.