Auction Catalogue

2 April 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1241

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2 April 2003

Hammer Price:
£410

Four: Lieutenant J. L. Wright, late Imperial Yeomanry and Natal Carbineers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (34906 Pte., 53rd Coy. Imp. Yeo.); Natal 1906, no clasp (Tpr., Natal Carbineers); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) dated clasps on the first unofficially riveted, very fine and better (4) £250-300

W. L. Wright was posted missing at Olivershoek Pass on 18 September 1901, but later rejoined his unit, the 53rd (Royal East Kent) Company, Imperial Yeomanry.