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Sold on 27 September 2016

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The Collection of Medals to Musicians formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord

Llewellyn Williams Lord, Jr

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27 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£240

Pair: Bandmaster E. M. Rogers, Lancashire Fusiliers

Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (4451 Bandmaster E. M. Rogers. Lanc: Fus:) suspension broken and missing; Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 3rd issue (Bandmaster E. M. Rogers. Lan. Fus.) good very fine except where stated (2) £200-260

Edward M. Rogers was born in 1861 in London and attested for the Lancashire Fusiliers under the alias of Manley Rogers at Aldershot on 15 March 1877. Advanced Sergeant in 1888, he served overseas in Malta, Gibraltar, Crete and Egypt, and was appointed Bandmaster on 7 March 1893. Awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 10 January 1903, he transferred to the Royal Hibernian Military School for Military Music on 24 October 1905, and was discharged on 17 April 1907. Recommended for the Meritorious Service Medal in July 1900, he was finally awarded it by Army Order 10 in 1933, and he died five years later in 1938.