A Collection of Medals to The South Wales Borderers

A mounted group of six miniature dress medals attributed to Captain F. O. Philpott, South Wales Borderers

Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed, mounted (incorrectly) as worn, extremely fine (6) £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to The South Wales Borderers.

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M.C. London Gazette 7 February 1918. ‘T./Capt. Francis Other Philpott, S. Wales Bord.’

Lieutenant Philpott, 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers, was wounded at Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli, 21 August 1915.

Lieutenant Philpott’s full-size medals were presented by the family to the Regimental Museum of the South Wales Borderers and Monmouthshire Regiment in 1984. With letters relating to the donation.