Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Three: Bandsman J. Stubbs, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, formerly 3rd (King’s Own) Hussars

Army L.S.G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6938 Pte., 5/Lrs.); Jubilee 1897, bronze, edge inscribed ‘3471 Bds., 3rd K.O. Hussars’; Coronation 1911, edge inscribed ‘6938 Bds., 5th/Lrs.’, good very fine (3) £140-160

John Stubbs, a servant by trade, enlisted into the 3rd Hussars at Dublin on 16 April 1894. He transferred to the 5th Lancers in December 1902, with which regiment he served until his discharge in April 1916. Sold with nine pages of copied service papers, which show that he suffered an accidental wound to his left arm on 26 October 1894 whilst on duty.