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Sold on 27 September 2016

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The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord

Llewellyn Williams Lord, Jr

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27 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£440

Six: Private E. W. Grey, South Wales Borderers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (3908 Dmr. E. W. Grey, S. Wales Bord.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3908 Dmr. E. W. Grey, S. Wales Bord.); 1914-15 Star (3908 Dmr. E. W. Grey, S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (3908 Pte. E. W. Grey, S. Wales Bord.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (2-3908 Dmr. E. W. Grey, S.W. Bord.), mounted as worn, the Boer War awards with contact wear and polished, good fine, the remainder rather better (6) £280-320

Ernest W. Grey entered the China theatre of war on 23 September 1914, when the 2nd Battalion, along with a detachment of the 36th Sikhs, formed the bulk of the British troops sent to assist the Japanese in capturing Germany’s naval base at Tsingtao (Qingdao) in China; sold with three original family picture postcards, one of them addressed to the recipient in the 2nd Battalion in North China and dated March 1914.