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

№ 587

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18 May 2011

Hammer Price:
£180

Four: Private T. Irving, King’s Own Scottish Borderers

1914-15 Star (1891 Pte., K.O. Sco. Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (1891 Pte., K.O.S.B.); Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver (T. Irving); together with a Parish of Wamphray Tribute Medal, 1914-18, 26mm., silver and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘Thomas P. Irving, served in the Great War 1914-1918’, good very fine (5) £70-90

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

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Private Thomas Irving, King’s Own Scottish Borderers entered the Mesopotamian (?) theatre of war on 24 May 1915. He subsequently served in the Royal Engineers and Labour Corps. With copied m.i.c. and other research. The Parish of Wamphray is in Dumfries and Galloway.