Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd

A Great War M.M., post-War R.V.M. group of eight awarded to Corporal W. Urquhart, Canadian Field Artillery, later Foreman Forester, Balmoral Estate

Military Medal, G.V.R. (86205 Bmbr. W. Urquhart. 17/By. Can. F.A.); Royal Victorian Medal, E.II.R., silver, unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (86205 Cpl. W. Urquhart. C.F.A.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, these all unnamed as issued; Royal Household Long and Faithful Service Medal, G.VI.R., suspension dated ‘1920-1940’, with Thirty Years Additional Award Bar (Urquhart, William.) edge bruise to VM, otherwise good very fine and better (8) £1,600-£2,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, 13 December 2007.

M.M. London Gazette 23 February 1918.

R.V.M. London Gazette 1 June 1953.

William Urquhart was born in Aberchirder, Banff, Scotland, in 1892 and emigrated to Canada in 1911. With the onset of the Great War he enlisted into the Canadian Field Artillery as a Driver at Winnipeg on 16 December 1914. He embarked for overseas service, sailing from Montreal aboard the S.S. Metagama on 9 August 1915. Serving on the Western Front with the Canadian Second Division, he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery.

After the war he returned to Scotland and following his father was employed on the Balmoral Estate where he subsequently became Foreman Forester. For his services to the Royal Household he was awarded the Long and Faithful Service Medal in 1940 and the Royal Victorian Medal in 1953, on the occasion of the Queen’s Coronation. His wife, Helen, for many years ran the general merchant’s shop on the Balmoral Estate.

Sold with certificates of award for the Royal Victorian Medal and the Long and Faithful Service Medal; the recipient’s obituary newspaper cutting; and copied research.