Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

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

№ 1019

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£110

Four: Pioneer A. H. Caiger, Special Constabulary, late Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals (237420 Pnr., R.E.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Arthur H. Caiger), mounted as worn

Three: Lieutenant O. P. E. H. B. Hill, Royal Field Artillery, onetime City of London Police and Special Constabulary

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 1st issue (Sergt. Oswald B. Hill), this last in card box of issue with ink inscription, ‘1238 Bank of Eng. A. Div.’

Pair: Special Constable E. J. Taylor

Defence Medal 1939-45; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 1st issue, 1 clasp, The Great War 1914-18 (Ernest J. Taylor), the first in original card box of issue addressed to the recipient at Battersea, London, good very fine and better (10) £80-100

Oswald Hill was commissioned Lieutenant in the R.F.A. Special Reserve on 2 July 1918; also sold with a bronze shooting medallion inscribed on reverse, ‘Division 4, 1936-37, B.E.R.C. O.B. Hill’.