Auction Catalogue

22 September 2006

Starting at 11:30 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

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

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Lot

№ 1172

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22 September 2006

Hammer Price:
£390

Private J. Williams, V.C., 24th Regiment

Signed Group Photograph, with John Willliams seated, wearing his Victoria Cross and Zulu medal, flanked by four officers in dinner jackets, 160 x 210mm., good condition £30-40

V.C. London Gazette 2 May 1879.

Private (later Sergeant) John Williams was one of the eleven men to be awarded the Victoria Cross for the action at Rorke’s Drift, 22/23 January 1879.