Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Sheriff of Kent Badge, 23mm., silver-gilt, silver and enamel, hallmarks for London 1937, reverse inscribed, ‘Major Sir John Theodore Prestige, High Sheriff of Kent, 1931-32’, with enamelled brooch bar, ‘1931-32’. in fitted case of issue, good very fine £60-80

Major Sir John Theodore Prestige was born in 1884. During the Great War he was an officer employed in recruiting duties with the 20th Battalion London Regiment and was a representative member on the L.C.C. Territorial Force Association. In 1918 he contested the Deptford Constituency as a Unionist and in 1919 was knighted. Prestige was High Sheriff of Kent during 1931-32. He died in 1962.