Auction Catalogue

23 March 2022

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 528

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23 March 2022

Hammer Price:
£850

Three: Major T. H. Woodham, Hampshire Regiment

Jubilee 1897, silver (Captain T. H. Woodham, 1st. Volr. Battn. Hants Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming; Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, V.R. cypher, silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1902, the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Maj. T. H. Woodham 1st. Vol. Battn. Hants Regt. 1903’, with integral top riband bar; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, V.R. (Captain & Hon: Major T. H. Woodham 1st. V.B. Hamps: Regt.) impressed naming; together with the related miniature awards, these mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £400-£500

Thomas Henry Woodham served as Captain and Honorary Major in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, and was awarded both the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (Army Order 1 July 1902) and the Volunteer Officers’ Decoration (London Gazette 30 December 1902). He commanded the Guard of Honour at Winchester Station on the occasion of the Mayor presenting an address in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee in 1897, for which he received the Jubilee Medal.

Sold with a photographic image of the recipient wearing his Jubilee Medal; and copied research.