Auction Catalogue

12 & 13 December 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 546

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13 December 2012

Estimate: £1,800–£2,200

Royal Military Academy, Pollock Medal, 2nd type, by B. Wyon, obverse: bust of Major-General Sir George Pollock facing left, in uniform, wearing the star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Bath and the Cabul Medal 1842, with the circumscription, ‘Pollock Cabul 1842’; reverse: ‘Royal Military Academy Pollock Prize, Founded by the British inhabitants of Calcutta to commemorate the eminent services of Major General Sir George Pollock G.C.B. and awarded to the Most Distinguished Cadet of the Season’, (C. H. Versturme, July 1886) gold, 45mm., 64.39g., slight edge bruising and scratch marks to reverse, nearly extremely fine £1800-2200

Charles Hamilton Versturme, commissioned a Lieutenant in the R.E. on 24 July 1886; advanced to captain on 10 July 1898.