Medals to Trumpeters from the Collection of Roderick Cassidy

Five: 2nd Lieutenant F. Stevenson, Royal Fusiliers, late Sergeant-Trumpeter, 6th Dragoon Guards

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3418 Pte., 6th Dragoon Gds.); 1914 Star, with slide-on clasp (3418 Sjt. Tptr., 6/D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3418 Sjt. Tptr., 6/D.G.), the first largely officially corrected and with crudely re-riveted suspension claw, severe edge bruising and polished, fine, the last with minor official correction to number, otherwise good very fine (5) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to Trumpeters from the Collection of Roderick Cassidy.

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Frederick Stevenson first entered the French theatre of war on 16 August 1914, as a Sergeant Trumpeter in the 6th Dragoon Guards. Commissioned into the 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers as a 2nd Lieutenant in March 1917, he was killed in action in the Arras operations on the 29th of the following month; his earlier services in the Boer War are verified by the appropriate medal roll, on which appear annotations that suggest his award was returned for official correction in April 1920.