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Sold on 1 December 2004

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Medals to Trumpeters from the Collection of Roderick Cassidy

Roderick Cassidy

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№ 315

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1 December 2004

Hammer Price:
£70

Pair: Sergeant-Trumpeter F. Allen, 1st Dragoon Guards

British War Medal 1914-20
(1DG-4099 Sjt., 1-D. Gds.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (D-19444 Sgt. Tptr., 1-K.D. Guards), the last officially corrected in parts, contact marks and one or two edge nicks, about very fine or better (2) £80-100

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

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Frederick Allen first entered the French theatre of war as a Sergeant-Trumpeter, 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, on 11 November 1914 and was accordingly entitled to the 1914 Star and Victory 1914-19 Medal.