Auction Catalogue

25 February 2015

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Lot

№ 333

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25 February 2015

Hammer Price:
£190

Volunteer Force Long Service, E.VII.R. (620 C.S. Maj. J. Beveridge, 1st Aberdeen R.E.V.) impressed naming, good very fine £80-100

Recipient was a Company Sergeant Major serving with the 1st Aberdeen Royal Engineer Volunteers.

The Aberdeen Journal issue of, 13 October 1904, contains an article pertaining to the presentation of long service medals to several members of the 1st Aberdeenshire Royal Engineer (Volunteers) that was made at the Albert Hall, Aberdeen, on the evening of 12 October 1904. Included amongst the recipients was Company Sergeant Major Beveridge, who was cited as being the seventh oldest man in the corps, and who had first joined the Volunteer Force in 1884. With copied notes.