Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Trooper G. P. Holland, 4/7th Dragoon Guards

1914 Star, with clasp (5919 Pte. G. P. Holland. 4/D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (D-5919 G. P. Holland. 4-D. Gds.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (389613 Tpr. G. P. Holland. 4-7 D.G.) nearly very fine, the last good very fine (4) £200-260

With copied m.i.c. which shows entry into France & Flanders on 16 August 1914.

George Percy Holland attested on 15 May 1911, aged 21 years 9 months. He served with the B.E.F. in France from 16 August 1914 to 14 March 1918, and in India from 17 September 1921 to 11 November 1929. Employed as a Farrier, 4/7th Dragoon Guards, he was discharged on 27 June 1930 and died on 2 July 1939, aged 50 years.

Trooper Holland’s Great War awards are all named to the 4th Dragoon Guards, not the 7th Dragoon Guards