Auction Catalogue

23 March 2022

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 214

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23 March 2022

Hammer Price:
£140

Three: Warrant Officer Class II J. M. White, Army Service Corps

1914 Star, with clasp (T-17467 Sjt. J. M. White. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (T-17467 W.O. Cl. 2 J. M. White. A.S.C.) mounted in a glazed display frame together with an original photograph of the recipient mounted on a camel; a published ‘Extract from 4th Corps Orders’ dated 11 March 1915, by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Bart., K.C.B., C.V.O., congratulating IV Corps on the taking of Neuve Chapelle; three brass Warrant Officer sleeve crown badges; a full size and mounted miniature ribbon bar for a Great War trio of medals; a portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform; a group photograph; a photograph of a ‘knocked out’ British Great War tank; and some of the contents of a Great War Princess Mary Gift Tin including the Christmas card, the small photograph of Princess Mary, and two empty flattened cigarette and tobacco packets, the frame measuring 465mm x 565mm, a few marks to the frame, photographs and ephemera in very good condition but pasted to the mounting board, the medals extremely fine (3) £140-£180

John Manley White attested for the Army Service Corps and served in No. 1 Company, 7th Division Transport Company during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 October 1914.

Please note that this lot is not suitable for shipping, but can be hand delivered within mainland Britain by prior arrangement.