Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

The 1902 Coronation Medal attributed to Sir Alfred Seale Haslam, Kt., M.P., Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme 1901-04
Coronation 1902, Mayors’ and Provosts’ issue, silver, unnamed as issued, together with a miniature of the same, both contained in red leather Elkington & Co. Ltd. cases

Four: Lieutenant E. S. Haslam, 4th North Midlands Howitzer Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
1914-15 Star (Lieut. E. S. Haslam. R.F.A. British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E. S. Haslam); Coronation 1937, together with mounted group of four miniature medals, extremely fine (10) £200-£260

Sold with a coat button of the Derbyshire Volunteer Corps of 1800, in excavated condition and lacking reverse fitment, with vellum note of attribution dated ‘Little Chester, 1886. Mr. A. S. Haslam’.

Alfred Seale Haslam was born on 27 October 1844, 4th son of William Haslam, Derby. He trained as an engineer at Midland Railway Works, Derby, later under Lord Armstrong’s Company. He started Haslam Engineering Works in Derby in 1868, and was the first to invent, manufacture, and to fit up Haslam’s patent refrigerating plant in the Colonies, and to fit up the machinery and cold chambers on board ship and on shore, which established an important business in conveying perishable food from the Colonies to Great Britain; Mayor of Derby, 1890-91, when he received H.M. Queen Victoria when she paid a State visit to the town, and was knighted in 1891; Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1901-04; contested Derby as Liberal Unionist, 1892; M.P. (L.U.) Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., 1900-06; donated to the Nation statues of Queen Victoria erected in the City of London, Newcastle-under-Lyme, and Derby. He lived at Breadsall Priory, near Derby, and died on 13 January 1927, leaving a son and two daughters.

Eric Seale Haslam served in France as a Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery from 1 March 1915. He was also a Captain in the 4th North Midland Brigade, R.F.A. (T.F.), known as the ‘Derbyshire Howitzers’.