Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Trooper C. R. G. Hill, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars - a noted artist, the lot is accompanied by a fine photograph album and a set of portrait drawings by the recipient

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (4) £200-£300

Clement Richard Guy Hill was born on 5 November 1911 and attested for the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars at Tidworth on 10 July 1941. An antique and Art Dealer in civilian life, he was also a noted artist, and also kept a detailed photograph album detailing his service in North Africa.

Sold together with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Army Book; Royal Gloucestershire Hussars cap badge; a photograph album compiled by the recipient; seven pencil portrait drawings by the recipient, of H.M. The King, David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, President F. D. Roosevelt, General Eisenhower, and two unidentified, these all mounted in glazed display frames; a portrait photograph of the recipient housed in a glazed gilt oval frame; and copied research and other ephemera.