Auction Catalogue

18 September 1998

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Forte Crest Bloomsbury Hotel  Coram Street  London  WC1N 1HT

Lot

№ 278

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18 September 1998

Hammer Price:
£330

Winsford Tribute Medal, silver, ‘Transvaal War in South Africa 1900-1901’, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented by the Town of Winsford to Edwin Hopley in recognition of his Patriotism & Valour in serving in the Transvaal War as a Sergeant in the 22nd Co. Imp. Yeo.’, complete with silver suspension brooch in its Thomas Ottley, Birmingham presentation case, extremely fine £250-300

Ref Hibbard A27 (Reverse 2).

Sergeant Hopley served in the 22nd (Cheshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry.