Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private G. P. Sked, Royal Army Medical Corps

1914-15 Star (57094 Pte., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (57094 Pte., R.A.M.C.); together with four Mine Rescue/Mine Ambulance medals: Edinburgh Mine Rescue Station Medal, 38mm., silver with gold obverse, hallmarks for Birmingham 1924, reverse inscribed, ‘1924 Awarded to Geo. P. Sked (Captain) Gallery Test’, edge inscribed, ‘Presented by the Mining Engineering Co. Ltd.’ - all inscriptions engraved; Edinburgh Central Mining Rescue Station Proficiency Medal, oval, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1921, reverse inscribed, ‘Proficiecy in Mine Rescue Work George Sked Burghlee Team 14.5.30 Captain’; Lothian Mine Workers’ Ambulance League Medal (2), oval, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1913, reverse inscribed, ‘Loanhead No.1 1914 George Sked’; another, circular, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1912, reverse inscribed, ‘Won by George Sked, Loanhead Colliery’, last fine; others very fine and better (7) £180-220

Private George P. Sked, R.A.M.C. entered the Mesopotamia theatre of war on 29 August 1915. Employed before the war at Loanhead Colliery. Both before and after the war served in the Loanhead/Edinburgh Colliery Ambulance and Rescue Service With copied m.i.c.