Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Colour Sergeant A. W. Laming, Royal Marines and Yeoman of the Guard

General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, South Arabia (RM.10539 Sgt., R.M.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (RM.10539 Sgt., R.M.) mounted court style as worn, some contact marks, nearly very fine and better (lot) £600-800

Sold with Royal Marines peaked cap bearing two badges, unnamed; pair of white leather gloves; red ceremonial sash; coloured aiguillettes (2); bugle, by Mayers & Harrison Ltd., Manchester; Royal Marines drum - base replaced and with added light fitting; and a pair of drum-sticks.

Also with a Programme for the Presentation of Colours to 40th, 42nd and 45th Commando, Royal marines, Malta, 29 November 1952; Buckingham Palace Investiture Programmes (3) 19 March 1996; 9 May 1997 and 26 March 1999; Programme of the Inspection of the Queen’s Body Guard of the Yeoman of the Guard, Buckingham Palace, 5 June 1997 - Alfred laming listed as a Yeoman of the Guard, 4th Division; Programme of the Order of the Garter procession and service of thanksgiving, 15 June 1998; Royal Marines, Deal, booklet; framed photograph, ‘The Queen’s Body Guard of The Yeoman of the Guard, Buckingham Palace, 3rd June 1953’, with identifications, 46.5 x 33cm.; framed photograph, ‘The Queen’s Body Guard of The Yeoman of the Guard 1485 Quincentenary Parade 1985 Buckingham Palace’, with identifications, 43.5 x 31.5cm.; portrait and other photographs (10); Group photographs (13); newspaper cuttings (2); cloth badges (2); buttons (8).

Note: a large lot.