Auction Catalogue

25 March 2015

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 709

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25 March 2015

Hammer Price:
£130

Family group:

Four
: Driver W. W. Coombs, Royal Field Artillery

1914
Star, with clasp (61715 Dvr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (61715 Dvr., R.A.); Defence Medal, unnamed, mounted as worn

Defence Medal, unnamed, attributed to Lance-Corporal Gladys Annaes Coombs, Auxiliary Territorial Service, medals very fine and better (lot) £160-200

Medals to father and daughter:

Medals to Driver W. W. Coombs, R.F.A., with Princess Mary’s Christmas Tin 1914 (empty); compass; fragment of shrapnel; seven related photographs - one of Coombs as a member of the Home Guard.

Medal to Lance-Corporal G. A. Coombs, A.T.S., with A.T.S. and V.A.D. Release Book; identity disk; diary 1933; small leather purse with 8 coins; magnifying glass; A.T.S. and other badges (6); other misc. items (8); eight related photographs - several of Coombs in uniform.

Together with an old photograph of grandmother and mother of Gladys Coombs, in frame; old studio photographs (12); photograph album containing many other photographs.