Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Nine: Corporal R. E. Stead, a Musician with the Grenadier Guards and Honourable Artillery Company

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, these all unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (611542 Musician, Gren. Gds.); Efficiency Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue, T. & A.V.R. (23882317 Cpl., HAC.) on ‘H.A.C. ribbon’, mounted for display, contact marks, edge bruising, fine and better (9)
£300-360

Army L.S. & G.C. awarded by List No. 3 of 1947; Efficiency Medal by List No. 104 of 1975.

Richard ‘Dick’ Stead joined the Grenadier Guards in 1928 and went on to become the principal trombonist on the regimental band. On leaving the Grenadier Guards in 1954 he continued his career as a professional musician, which included a residency at the London Palladium and playing with many of the top bands of the time. In 1961 he joined the H.A.C. Band, with whom he served until 1981. With copied research.