Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A R.V.M. group of ten awarded to Mr. H. J. Wall, Liver Porter at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, and later Keeper of St. George’s Gate, Windsor Castle

Royal Victorian Medal, G.V.R., silver, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1887, with 1897 clasp, bronze, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1902, bronze, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Spain, Kingdom, Order of Merit, Silver Cross of the Order, uniface, silver, with crown suspension, on peace time riband; Sweden, Kingdom, Royal Household Medal, Gustaf V, silver, with crown suspension; Portugal, Kingdom, King Carlos I Medal 1889, bronze; Persia, Empire, Medal of the Order of the Lion and the Sun AH 1317 (AD 1901), silver; Germany, Prussia, Order of the Crown, Gold Medal of the Order, bronze-gilt, with crown suspension; Italy, Kingdom, Vittorio Emmanuel III Medal for Recompense, bronze, the first eight mounted court-style as worn by J. R. Gaunt, London, the last two medals loose, presumably having been removed from the recipient’s chest following the outbreak of the Second World War, the suspension on the Portuguese medal broken and the planchet detached, nearly very fine and better (10) £500-£700

Henry Joseph Wall was born at Upton, Isle of Wight, in 1858, and was employed as a Livery Porter at both Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. He latterly served as Keeper of St. George’s Gate, Windsor Castle, and died on 15 March 1940.

Sold with the Bestowal Document for the Portuguese Medal of King Carlos I, named to Wall, and dated Lisbon, 23 December 1909; the Bestowal Document for the Italian Medal of Recompense, named to Henry Jospeh Wall, Livery Porter, Buckingham Palace, and dated Rome, 10 August 1924; and a photograph of the recipient with his niece, and another of St. George’s Gate.