Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

Public Schools Veterans Challenge Trophy, a bronze medal, names of schools both sides, obv. impressed (1932 Eton (B) 229, C.L. Longstaff 44), 57mm, extremely fine £30-40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Medals and Militaria.

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Provenance:

Glendining Auction, 6 June 1990, lot 137 (part);
bt R. Kirch.

The recipient was Cedric Llewellyn Longstaff, CBE, TD (1876-1950), of Lichfield, who commanded the Volunteer Services Co, E Surrey Regt, in South Africa (QSA with 5 clasps), served in WWI as a Capt, then Major, 6th N Staffs Regt, and became Hon Colonel of the 7th N Staffs Regt. Further biographical detail is sold with the lots