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

№ 1187

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22 September 2006

Hammer Price:
£920

Miscellaneous V.C. related documents

Documents,
including: Great War Memorial Scrolls (2) for ‘Cpl. Alfred George Drake, V.C., Rifle Brigade’; ‘2nd Lt. Sidney Clayton Woodroffe, V.C., 8th Rifle Brigade’; calling card of Corpl. T. Veale, V.C, Devonshire Regiment; a signed letter from George V to the mother of R. A. West, V.C.; First Anniversary of Defence of Ladysmith Dinner Menu, 28 February 1902, in the chair, Sir George White, V.C.; also a set of medals ribbons for John Edmund Gough, V.C., generally good condition (lot) £200-300

Corporal A. G. Drake, 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade, V.C. London Gazette 22 January 1916; k.i.a. 23 November 1915. See also lots 1156 and 1163.

2nd Lieutenant S. C. Woodroffe, 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade, V.C.
London Gazette 6 September 1915; k.i.a. 30 July 1915.

Corporal T. W. H. Veale, 8th Battalion Devonshire Regiment, V.C.
London Gazette 9 September 1916.

Acting Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. West, North Irish Horse, attached 6th Battalion Tank Corps, V.C.
London Gazette 30 October 1918; 2 September 1918.

Brevet Major (later Brigadier General) J. E. Gough, Rifle Brigade, V.C.
London Gazette 15 January 1904; d.o.w. 22 February 1915.