Auction Catalogue

7 December 2005

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

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Lot

№ 1289

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7 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£55

Inns of Court Officers’ Training Corps Medal, silver cross, 60mm., reverse inscribed, ‘Inns of Court O.T.C. Battalion Cup 1911, won by L. Corp. C. D. Carus-Wilson of the Squadron’, with hallmarks for Birmingham 1911, in fitted case of issue, extremely fine
£60-80

Charles Denny Carus-Wilson joined 148 Squadron Inns of Court O.T.C. on 18 April 1908 and with the rank of Lance-Corporal won the Battalion Cup in 1911. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st County of London Yeomanry on 8 June 1912, attaining the rank of Captain on 1 June 1916. Carus-Wilson was wounded and awarded the Military Cross (London Gazette 18 January 1918).