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8 & 9 May 2019

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Lot

№ 1167

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9 May 2019

Hammer Price:
£160

Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3329 S.S. Mjr: T. Wynn. 11/Hrs.); together with a silver Shooting Medal, E.VII.R., 38 mm, the reverse inscribed ‘Cairo. Army & Navy Rifle Meeting 1903. Best Shot at 800 Yards won by S.S.M. T. Wynn. XIth Hussars’, the edge additionally inscribed ‘S.S.M. T. Wynn XIth Hussrs.’, fitted with ring suspension, old lacquer, otherwise good very fine (2) £80-£100

Thomas Wynn was born near Ellesmere, Shropshire, and attested for the 11th Hussars on 2 October 1891, aged 18 years 7 months. He served in South Africa, May to October, 1892; in India, October 1892 to October 1899; and in Egypt, October 1899 to April 1903. He was promoted to Squadron Sergeant-Major in September 1901, and in 1905 was posted to the Permanent Staff of the Montgomershire Yeomanry. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal by Army Order 73 of 1910, and was discharged on 14 February 1913. During the Great War he was commissioned in July 1917, as Lieutenant in the Glamorgan Dragoons, and advanced to Captain in May 1918, but did not serve overseas. Captain Wynn was killed in a motor accident in December 1929. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research including a regimental obituary.