Auction Catalogue

3 December 2020

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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3 December 2020

Hammer Price:
£90

National Rifle Association Medal 1860, 48mm, bronze (2), (A. Rumball * 3rd Herts. R.V. * 1862; A. Rumball * 3rd Herts. R.V. * 1864) both fitted with bronze swivel bar suspension, very fine £120-£160

Aubrey Rumball was born in 1836 and joined the 3rd Hertfordshire Rifle Volunteers as a Private in about 1860. He was appointed Ensign on 26 January 1872; Captain and Hon. Major, 5 October 1881; Major and Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel, 30 July 1892, in which year he was gazetted with the Volunteer Decoration as Major, 2nd (Herts) Vol. Battn. the Bedfordshire Regiment. He died on 27 September 1916, a local newspaper reporting:

‘Mr Aubrey Rumball, of St Albans, head of Rumball and Edwards, auctioneers, land agents and surveyors, who retired from the Volunteers with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and on the outbreak of war became second in command to the later Lord Essex in the Hertfordshire Volunteer Association, a well-known shot, and one of the English Eight at Wimbledon, died on September 27, aged 80, leaving estate of the gross value of £125,458, the net personality being £116,358. After providing for legacies amounting to about £3,000, he left the residue of his property to his partner, George Henry Edwards.’