Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914-15 Star (103652 Spr. H. Cross. R.E.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (9776TS E. Hayden. D.H. R.N.R.; 2745 L. Sjt. H. A. Lee. Can. Cav. Bde.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal (2); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal (336910 J. Leslie); India Service Medal; Coronation 1953, generally good very fine or better (lot) £60-£80

Provenance: David Barry Bailey Collection.

Hugh Cross served with the Royal Engineers during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 October 1915.

Sold with a British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18; a Handsworth Urban District Council Commemorative Medal for the Coronation of George V and Queen Mary 1911, bronze; a Hampton Court Palace Medallion commemorating the reign of Elizabeth I; a Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs Bell Medal, bronze, unnamed as issued; an Ulster Unionist lapel badge, bronze and enamel; and a silver Maltese Cross, the obverse engraved ‘From Trustees of D.S. No. 4 Castleton S.I. 1889’, the reverse engraved ‘Matthew Donegan’.