Auction Catalogue

19–21 June 2013

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

№ 721

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19 June 2013

Hammer Price:
£95

Pair: Private H. J. Hitchens, Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
British War Medal 1914-20 (1572 Pte. H. J. Hitchens, R. Wilts. Yeo.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (1572 Pte. H. J. Hitchens, R. Wilts. R. (sic)), very fine or better

Pair:
Private E. Whiting, Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
British War and Victory Medals (1004 Pte. E. Whiting, R. Wilts. Yeo.), good very fine (4) £80-100

Herbert James Hitchens served in ‘B’ Squadron, 1/1 Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, first going out to France in May 1916, but later served in the 6th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, at Ypres in 1917 and, in the following year, in the 2nd Battalion. He was demobilised in February 1919.

Edgar Whiting served in ‘D’ Squadron, 1/1 Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, and first went out to France in late 1915, thus gaining entitlement to the 1914-15 Star. He later served in the 6th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, and in the 11th (Garrison) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment. Clearly a colourful character, Whiting was awarded 96 days Field Punishment No. 1. for ‘disobeying a lawful command given by his superior officer’ in January 1916, threatened with a court-martial in December 1917, which appears to have come to nothing, and deprived of his Lance-Corporal’s stripe for ‘making an improper reply to a senior N.C.O.’ in January 1919. He was demobilised in April 1919; sold with copied attestation and service papers.