Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Driver A. A. Pulham, Royal Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (28108 A. Br. A. A. Pulham, 38th Bty. R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (28108 Bomb. A. A. Pulham, R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (28108 Dvr. A. A. Pulham, R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (28108 Dvr. A. A. Pulham, R.A.); Delhi Durbar 1911 (28108 Dvr. A. A. Pulham, S. R.H.A.), engraved naming; Royal Victorian Medal, G.V.R., silver (28108 Dr. A. A. Pulham, “S” R.H.A.), engraved naming; Royal Victorian Medal, E.VII.R., bronze (28108 Dr. A. A. Pulham, B.B. R.H.A.), engraved naming, mounted court-style with new ribands but original wearing pin, the first with officially corrected rank, clasp backstraps and upper lugs removed for mounting purposes, and the R.V.M. with repaired / replacement suspension rings, the earlier awards with contact marks and polished, thus good fine, the remainder rather better (8)
£500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Arthur Anthony Pulham was a long-served regular in the Royal Artillery and witnessed action as a Bombardier in 38th Battery, R.F.A. during the Boer War, for which he was awarded the above described Medals & clasps. Then in 1910, as a Driver in ‘B’ Battery, R.H.A., he was selected as a member of the gun detachment charged with conveying the remains of Edward VII to Westminster Hall, and thence to Paddington, and was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal in bronze. While out in India in the following year, as a member of ‘S’ Battery, R.H.A., Pulham served as a Postilion to King George V and Queen Mary during their tour in India and at the Coronation Durbar in Delhi, services that resulted in him being awarded the Royal Victorian Medal in silver in June 1912. Pulham subsequently served in the Great War, first entering the Asiatic theatre of war in late February 1915; sold with related research and copy photographs, one of them depicting the recipient at the time of the Delhi Durbar in 1911.