The Prince of Wales’s Loyal Volunteers Medal, engraved prize medal, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented by Captain Drummond to William Winter of the First Company for the best Shot at a Target on the 2nd Day of May 1804’, 53mm., silver-gilt, unmounted, contained in contemporary red leather case, test marks to reverse, otherwise good very fine and rare £240-280

Ex D.N.W. December 2005

Raised in September 1803 by Lieut-Colonel Commandant Miles Peter Andrews and Lieut-Colonel Sir Walter Stirling, Bart. Charles Drummond was the senior Captain. As London based volunteers were not converted to Local Militia in 1808, the unit continued serving until about 1815.