Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An important Great War Victory Medal to Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum who was lost at sea when H.M.S. Hampshire struck a mine in June 1916
Victory Medal 1914-19 (F.M. Earl Kitchener, K.P. G.C.B. O.M.) extremely fine £500-700

Ex Buckland Dix & Wood 6 May 1992.
Kitchener’s group of campaign medals, on display at the Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham, are all official replacements for those lost at sea in 1916, together with replacement Great War medals. Various of his original issue Great War medals and bronze memorial plaque, deemed superfluous in the light of his replacement set, have appeared on the market over the years.