Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Baines, Police Ambulance Service

Coronation 1902, Police Ambulance Service (Lt. Col. Matthew Baines) bronze; Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, V.R. cypher, hallmarks for London 1895, unnamed, complete with brooch bar, good very fine (2) £300-360

A note with the medals suggests that Baines was a medical doctor, holding the degree ‘M.D.’; was awarded the Order of St. John on 23 February 1903 and awarded the V.D. in 1894.