Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 July 2017

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Lot

№ 235

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19 July 2017

Hammer Price:
£170

Five: Trooper A. D. G. Gifford, 20th Hussars, later 7th Hussars

1914 Star, with copy clasp (4914 Pte G. Gifford 20/Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals (4914 Pte. A. D. G. Gifford. 20-Hrs.); War Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (536585 Tpr. A. D. Gifford. 7-H.) mounted as worn, minor contact marks, very fine and better (5) £140-180

Alfred Daniel G. Gifford was born in 1887 in Ramsgate, Kent, and at the time of the 1911 Census was at The Curragh, Ireland with the 20th Hussars. He served with 20th Hussars during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 August 1914 to 27 October 1914 and again in France from 15 April 1917 to 11 November 1918, having at some stage transferred to the Military Mounted Police. He was discharged to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 6 January 1919 and re-enlisted on 5 August 1919 at Whitehall with the 14th Hussars. He was discharged at Canterbury as Trooper 7th Hussars attached from 14th/20th Hussars on 24 August 1932, and was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order in December 1932. He died in Ealing in 1951.