Auction Catalogue

25 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1577

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£110

Pair: Pioneer H. Sutherland, Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals (321646 Pnr., R.E.); together with a ‘St. Dunstans Billiard Fund Medal, 32mm., silver, reverse inscribed, ‘Won by H. Sutherland’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1924

Four: P. H. Bailey

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, mounted as worn; with two identity disks, ‘47048 Bailey, P. H., CE’

Pair: attributed to Miss Edith Gilling, British Red Cross Society

Coronation 1953, unnamed in (Gents) card box of issue; British Red Cross Society War Service Medal 1914-18, unnamed, in card box of issue, this lightly inscribed in pencil, ‘Edith Gilling’

British War Medal 1914-20 (18561 Pte. G. Tillson, S. Saffs. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (7574451 S. Sjt. Willcox, R.A.O.C.) last with edge bruise, neraly very fine and better (13) £80-100

Miss Edith Gilling enrolled in the B.R.C.S. in November 1914 and served as Quartermaster at the Thirsk Auxiliary Hospital, being discharged in February 1919.

Medals to Bailey with forwarding slip and with a note bearing a few service details.