The David Laban Collection of Territorial Force War Medal Groups

Family Group:

Three: Captain L. Beck, 2nd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), London Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (Capt. L. Beck.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt. L. Beck. 2-Lond. R.) all in named card boxes of issue; together with three card identity discs, two named ‘Capt. L. Beck, C.E. 2 Lon. Reg.’, and the third named ‘Capt. L. Beck C.E. 2 Col. R.F.’, extremely fine

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, V.R. (No. 662 Qr. Master Sergt. J. P. Beck. 2nd V.B. R.W. Regt.) engraved naming, small edge knock, otherwise very fine (4) £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Laban Collection of Territorial Force War Medal Groups.

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Lancelot Beck is listed as Captain in the November 1914 Army List, with seniority, of 3 September 1914, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 November 1916. He died in 1948.

Sold with the recipient’s original parchment commission scroll appointing Lancelot Beck to be 2nd Lieutenant, Volunteer Forces, dated 3 July 1907; and two postcard-sized group photographs in which Lancelot Beck is identified, one seemingly a pre-War photograph of officers of the Royal Fusiliers, and the other a group of Staff Officers.

J. P. Beck, father of the above, of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was awarded the V.L.S.M. per Army Order 77 of 1 April 1896.