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26 January 2022

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№ 246

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26 January 2022

Hammer Price:
£1,400

An impressive R.V.M. group of twelve awarded to Mr. Gethyn Jones, Stove and Flue Attendant at Buckingham Palace, late Private, Gloucestershire Regiment

Royal Victorian Medal, E.II.R., silver, privately engraved ‘Gethyn Jones’, with small correction to surname; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, the Defence and War Medals both privately engraved ‘2061265 Pte. G. Jones 1/Glos.’; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, E.II.R., the suspension bar officially dated ‘1937-1957’ and with ‘Thirty Years’ Bar (Gethyn Jones); Luxembourg, Grand Duchy, Medal of the Civil and Military Order of Adolph of Nassau, bronze; Malaysia, Federation, Medal of the Order of the Defender of the Realm, silver; Greece, Kingdom, Medal of the Order of George I, bronze; Persia, Empire, Medal of the Order of the Lion and Sun, silver, mounted court-style as worn, generally good very fine (12) £1,000-£1,400

R.V.M. London Gazette 1 January 1968.

Gethyn Jones was born at Hafod, Glamorgan in 1907 and entered Royal Service at Buckingham Palace in 1937. Apart from wartime service in the Gloucestershire Regiment (1942-45), including Burma, he remained employed as a Stove and Flue Attendant at the Palace for the remainder of his career.