Lot Archive

Lot

№ 744

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9 December 1999

Hammer Price:
£160

Pair: Lady Winifred Willcocks, wife of General Sir James Willcocks, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.

British War Medal (Lady Willcocks); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (2) £40-60

Laby Winifred Willcocks was the daughter of Colonel G. A. Way, C.B., Indian Army. She married in 1889, General Sir James Willcocks, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., who died in 1926. Lady Willcocks is confirmed on the roll for the 1911 Delhi Durbar medal. During the Great War she served in France from February to June 1918, with the Church Army.