Auction Catalogue

5 April 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

.

Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Download Images

Lot

№ 1383

.

5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£130

The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s Own), a very fine full dress scarlet post 1904 tunic to a Lieutenant, complete with all buttons shoulder boards and fine embroidered P of W’s collar badges, collar and cuffs with the restored buff facings, provision for medals; quilted white silk lining and retailer’s ticket for ‘J&P’, named to ‘RJW. Ind Esq’ and dated ‘2.3.04’; together with crimson silk waist sash, externally of excellent colour and very little surface moth, the buttons rubbed and have been moved, the silk lining perished in a few small places (2) £80-100

R. J. W. Ind, 2nd Lieut 4/7/03, Essex Imperial Yeomanry (Service in Boer War) Lieut., West Yorks Regt 19/5/09, Captain 1910. Present with 2nd Battalion August 1914. Transferred 2/10/14 6th TF Battn. North Staffordshire Regt. (Employed Permanently at the Base Battalion) Major c1916.