Auction Catalogue

6 July 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 828

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£880

A Great War M.C. group of six to Lieutenant N. Hands, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, late Army Cyclist Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R. ‘Lieut. N. Hands, Royal Warwickshire Regiment’, in case of issue, lid bearing the initials ‘N.H., R.W.R.’; 1914-15 Star (2392 Cpl., A. Cyc. Corps); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Defence; National Fire Brigades Association L.S. Medal, 1 clasp, Ten Years, (11885 Neville Hands), bronze; together with a set of six miniature dress medals, as above except last which is in silvered metal and with a ‘Twenty Years’ clasp, these mounted as worn, in a glass fronted case bearing the initials, ‘N.H., R.W.R.’, good very fine and better (12) £500-600

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Sold with original telegram requesting his attendance at Buckingham Palace, dated 22 June 1919.