Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Historical Medals

LONDON, Holborn, The Jockey Club, oval silver, jockey club, rev. named (Lt. Colonel J.D. Hornung), 37 x 20mm, 12.34g (W –; DNW 138, –). Very fine; with loop for suspension £40-£60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Group of Tickets and Passes Related to Horse Racing.

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Sir John Derek Hornung, OBE (1915-78), lived at Horsham; 2nd Lt, Irish Guards, 1936; served in France and North-West Europe, gaining the rank of Lt-Col, 1944; High Sheriff of Sussex, 1962; chairman of Sena Sugar Estates Ltd, 1964; Lt of the Yeoman of the Guard, 1971; owner of the West Grinstead Stud