Auction Catalogue

30 June 1998

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 377

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30 June 1998

Hammer Price:
£110

Leicestershire Vagrancy Committee, an interesting ledger, circa 1920, detailing particulars of discharged sailors and soldiers applying for admission to casual wards, each page bearing the details of an individual sailor or soldier, with full name, regiment, regimental number, reason for discharge etc. A sad record of some of the demobilized sailors and soldiers who at the end of the Great War found that they had no homes or jobs to go back to, good condition £80-100