Auction Catalogue

4 July 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Miniature Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 807

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£180

A Selection of Commission Appointment Documents, comprising: Commander John Wheeler, 12 April 1832; Lieutenant Adrian John Hebron Vanrenen, 10 March 1883; Second Lieutenant Gustavus Bailey, 7 April 1891; Second Lieutenant Stanley North Smith, 20 December 1902; Second Lieutenant Percy Fawley, 13 July 1917; Second Lieutenant John Herbert Littler, 10 August 1917; Second Lieutenant Harold Vincent Jellicoe (3), 24 November 1917; Lieutenant, R.A.F., 1 December 1918; Lieutenant, Territorial Army, 30 November 1923; Second Lieutenant Kenneth William Chambers (2), 28 May 1918; Second Lieutenant, Home Guard, 12 July 1952; Lieutenant Thomas Denness, 10 September 1937; Second Lieutenant Peter Francis Hugh Wray, Royal Marines, 24 September 1941; together with a vellum Militia commission appointment document to Lieutenant May Jenkins Freestun, Somerset Regiment of Militia, 9 August 1855; and a New Zealand Volunteer Force commission appointment document to Ensign Alfred Maskell, No. 3 Company, Canterbury Rifles, 12 June 1867, some laid on card, generally in good condition (15) £100-150

Lieutenant P. F. H. Wray was killed in action in Italy on 18 September 1943 whilst serving with No. 41 Commando, Royal Marines.