Auction Catalogue

2 April 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1226

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£700

Nine: Major D. E. A. Meredith, Royal Artillery

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed, mounted as worn; Coronation 1937, unnamed; Belgium, Order of the Crown, 5th Class breast badge, silver and enamel, in Fonson case of issue; Denmark, Order of the Dannebrog, Christian X, Knight’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, slight enamel damage, in Michelsen, Copenhagen case of issue; Netherlands, Order of Orange Nassau, 4th Class breast badge, gold and enamel, rosette on ribbon, in van Wielik, The Hague case of issue, generally very fine and better (21) £400-450

Sold with a set of nine miniature dress medals, mounted as worn on two bars, as above (Danish and Dutch Orders in gold and enamel; M.I.D. on War Medal). Additionally with two silver prize medals: one inscribed, ‘Chigwell School, under 6st. 1930, winner D. E. A. Meredith’, the other from the Polytechnic School, dated ‘1935’, inscribed, ‘Football League Div.1, D. E. A. Meredith’. Also with a wooden shield by Barton & Son, Bangalore, bearing metal plates inscribed, ‘Major D. E. A. Meredith, R.A., from 2 Field Regiment (SP), Bir Hacheim, 27 May 1942, Middle East, November 1941 to January 1944, Burma, September 1944 to January 1946’.