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

№ 1032

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£1,850

A Great War M.C. group of eight awarded to Captain Spencer Tryon, East African Mounted Rifles, formerly Imperial Light Horse and Transvaal Mounted Rifles

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse neatly inscribed ‘Awarded to Capt. S. Tryon, King’s African Rifles’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Natal, Relief of Mafeking, Transvaal (Lieut., Imp. Lt. Horse); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., I.L.H.); Natal 1906, clasp, 1906 (Lt., Transvaal Mtd. Rifles); 1914-15 Star (Capt., E. Afr. M. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Coronation 1911 (Lieut., Imp. Lt. Horse), some edge bruising and contact wear, otherwise very fine and better (8) £800-1000

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. (King’s African Rifles).