Auction Catalogue

23 March 2022

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Lot

№ 209

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23 March 2022

Hammer Price:
£170

Four: Private W. H. Hine, Coldstream Guards and Guards Machine Gun Battalion, later Special Constabulary
1914 Star, with clasp (9173 Pte. W. H. Hine. C. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (9173 Pte. W. H. Hine. C. Gds.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (William H. Hine), small stain to obverse of VM, otherwise good very fine

Three: Lance-Corporal O. Matthews, Coldstream Guards
1914-15 Star (1908 L.Cpl. O. Matthews, C.Gds:) first letter of surname officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (11908 Pte. O. Matthews. C. Gds.) small spot of verdigris to obverse of VM, otherwise very fine (7) £160-£200

William Henry Hine attested for service in the Grenadier Guards at Exeter on 11 July 1911 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914. He subsequently transferred to the Guards Machine Gun Battalion and was re-numbered 547. He was discharged on 8 February 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge no. B227595.

Oliver Matthews attested for service in the Grenadier Guards at Taunton on 9 September 1914 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 February 1915. He was wounded in the right knee on 12 May 1915 and was repatriated home, but returned to the Western Front in September 1915.