Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (The South Lancashire Regiment), Medal for Good Work, silver-gilt, obverse: regimental crest with battle honours, reverse: engraved, ‘To Bandmaster Andrew Harris, in Recognition of Good Work, Easter 1910’ and ‘In sweet music is such art’, loop suspension, good very fine £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Musicians formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Andrew Harris, M.V.O., was Bandmaster of the 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment from 1900 to 1910. He subsequently served in a similar capacity for the Royal Artillery and Welsh Guards and, having served as a Bandmaster for the latter regiment in France during the Great War, ended his career as a Senior Director of Music, Brigade of Guards; sold with copied research.