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26 & 27 September 2018

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Lot

№ 998

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27 September 2018

Hammer Price:
£340

Four: Corporal E. Quaife, B.E.M., 2nd Dragoons and Grenadier Guards, later Senior State Trumpeter in Scotland

Defence Medal; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (...257 Cpl. E. Quaife. The Greys.) mounted as worn, light contact marks, especially to last, very fine (4) £100-140

Edward Quaife was born in 1902 and was raised at the Foundling Hospital, London. He attested for the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) at the age of 15 as a musician on 4 September 1917, and served with the Regiment in France and Germany from 15 December 1918 to 22 March 1919 (not entitled to any Great War medals). Advanced Corporal, he was awarded the Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 81 of April 1936, before transferring to the Grenadier Guards as a Musician on 16 December of that year.

After taking his discharge from the Army, Quaife was appointed one of His Majesty’s Trumpeters in Scotland on 1 June 1944, and was awarded the 1953 Coronation Medal in his role as a Household Trumpeter. He was awarded the British Empire Medal (Civil Division) in the 1983 Birthday Honours’ List (
London Gazette 11 June 1983: ‘Edward Quaife, lately Senior State Trumpeter, Scottish Office’), and died in Edinburgh in 1987.