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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№ 790 x

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25 March 2015

Hammer Price:
£120

Four: Second Lieutenant T. H. Wallis, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed, mounted for display, medals generally extremely fine (4) £100-140

Thomas Howard Wallis was born in Marylebone, London on 13 April 1899. Educated at Eton and the Royal Military College; he was at Christ Church College, Oxford from 1920. He was commissioned into the K.R.R.C. on 21 August 1918 and served in France from 17 October 1918; placed in the Reserve of Officers in 1920. Rejoined the K.R.R.C. on 12 April 1941; ranked as War Substantive Lieutenant in April 1942; Temporary Captain, March 1943. Died in Sittingbourne, Kent in 1974. With original slip to accompany the W.W. 2 medals, copied research, including gazette extracts and a selection of copied military photographs of the recipient.