Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Police Constable T. Isard, Metropolitan Police, late Trumpeter, 1st Royal Dragoons

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (2954 Tptr., 1/Rl. Drgns.), surname spelt ‘Izard’; Coronation 1902, bronze, Metropolitan Police (P.C., R Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C.), one or two edge bruises but generally very fine or better (3) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to Trumpeters from the Collection of Roderick Cassidy.

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Thomas (George) Isard was born at Bromley, Kent and enlisted in the 1st Royal Dragoons in May 1888, aged 14 years. Appointed a Trumpeter in June 1889, he witnessed active service out in South Africa from October 1899 to April 1901, and was discharged in May of the latter year. Then in September of the same year he joined ‘R’ (Greenwich) Division of the Metropolitan Police as a P.C., in which capacity he served until his retirement in October 1926, aged 53 years.