Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore

Devon County Volunteer Association Rifle Prize Shooting Medal, silver, the obverse featuring a kneeling Rifleman in the firing position, ‘Devon County Volunteer Association’ above, the reverse engraved ‘Championship 1901’ within laurel wreath, with top silver riband bar, edge bruising, nearly extremely fine £40-£50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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Attributed to Private A. J. White ‘G’ Company, Colyton 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Devonshire Regiment.

Sold with a programme booklet for the Devon County Volunteer Association Rifle Prize Meeting 1901 inscribed ‘A. J. White, Colyton’, including results; a similar booklet for 1910; and Notes for Territorial Yeoman 1912; together with a copied newspaper report of a rifle meeting in 1901.