Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Pair: Squadron Sergeant-Major T. Wynn, 11th Hussars, latterly a Captain in the Glamorgan Dragoons

Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3329 S.S. Mjr., 11/Hrs.); Shooting Medal, E.VII.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Cairo Army & Navy Rifle Meeting 1903 Best Shot at 800 yards won by S.S.M.T. Wynn, XIth Hussars’, 38mm., silver, good very fine and better (2) £70-90

Thomas Wynn was born near Ellesmere, Shropshire. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for the 11th Hussars on 2 October 1891, aged 18 years, 7 months. With them he served in South Africa, May-October 1892; India, October 1892-October 1899 and Egypt, October 1899-April 1903. Promoted to Squadron Sergeant-Major in September 1901. In 1905 he posted to the permanent staff of the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. by A.O. 73 of 1910. Having claimed his discharge, he retired on 14 February 1913. During the Great War he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Glamorgan Dragoons in July 1917 and was advanced to Captain in May 1918 but did not serve overseas. Captain Wynn died in a motor accident in December 1929. With copied research including service papers, m.i.c. and obituary.