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

№ 567

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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£45

British Army Sporting Medals, Iraq 1921-22, comprising three niello-work medals comprising silver circular medal, 31mm, hallmarked Birmingham 1914, ‘Cross Country Championship, Iraq 1921-22, 2nd Place’; a star-shaped award, 35mm, ‘Service Championship 1 Mile, Iraq 1922, British 2nd’; a similar star-shaped award, 30mm, ‘Service Championship Team Race, Iraq 1922, British 3rd’, all three named to ‘Lieut H. M. Burton’ and contained in a contemporary case, the lid gold-embossed ‘Iraq 1922’, very fine (3) £30-40

Lieutenant Henry Merceron Burton was commissioned into the Norfolk Regiment on 21 August 1918, becoming Lieutenant on 21 February 1920.