Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Regimental Swagger Sticks.
Five Regimental Swagger Sticks, for the Northumberland Fusiliers, Norfolk Regiment, Suffolk Regiment, West Yorkshire Regiment, and Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, the tops of each bearing the Regimental crest, and the one to the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment additionally engraved ‘Hon. L. O. Russell.’, three with bottom ferrules; together with a miscellaneous presentation stick, generally good condition (6) £100-£140

The Hon. Leopold Oliver Russell was born on 26 January 1907, the youngest son of Arthur Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill, and was educated at Eton. He served with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (Territorial Army) during the Second Word War, was advanced Brigadier, and was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1944, and awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1945. He died in January 1989.