Auction Catalogue

5 April 2006

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

№ 559

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£150

1914 Star (57749 Dvr. W. C. Haskell, R.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (4) (2 Lieut. G. W. W. Dron; 2 Lieut. G. B. Jubb; Capt. J. S. Weir; 20995 G. H. Sorrell, R.A.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (Capt. J. Wilson; 7909 A. Sjt. G. Gleave, Manch. R.; 2028 Gnr. J. Robinson, R.A.)

Pair
: R. Bryan-Smith

British War and Victory Medals (R. Bryan-Smith) very fine and better (10) £90-110

George W. W. Dron enlisted into the Army as Private 10963 in the Durham Light Infantry and later transferred to the K.O.Y.L.I. he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 May 1915. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Labour Corps on 20 October 1917.

George Bertrand Jubb was born in Batley, Yorkshire on 19 May 1885 and was educated at Batley Grammar School. He enlisted as a Private in the West Yorkshire Regiment in July 1915. On 14 January 1917 he was commissioned a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the K.O.Y.L.I. and was promoted Temporary Lieutenant on 23 Novenber 1920. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 28 March 1917.

Captain James Scott Weir, Royal Engineers, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 29 March 1917.