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8 December 2016

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Lot

№ 86

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8 December 2016

Hammer Price:
£440

An ‘H.M. Funeral’ R.V.M. group of three awarded to Private P. Lyall, Grenadier Guards

Royal Victorian Medal, V.R., bronze, unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (3326 Pte. P. Lyall, Gren: Gds:); Coronation 1902, bronze, the last gilded, scratch marks to obverse of QSA, nearly very fine (3) £240-280

P. Lyall was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal in bronze for forming part of the gun carriage team at the funeral of H.M. Queen Victoria, 2 February 1901, whilst serving as a Lance Corporal in the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards.