Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Three: Major P. H. Johnson, 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry), a member of the New Zealand 1911 Coronation Contingent

Coronation 1911, engraved ‘Major P.H. Johnson, N.Z.’; New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (Major, 1st Mtd. Rifles (C.Y.C.) (1916)); New Zealand Territorial Long Service Medal (Major, 1st Mtd. Rifles (C.Y.C.) (1913)), the first two mounted as worn, the last with slack suspension claw, edge nicks, good very fine and better, together with related C.Y.C. cap badge and pair of collar badges (6) £250-300

Percy Hawkins Johnson, who was born in Essex in July 1868 and settled in New Zealand, ‘was an early pastoralist with 25,000 hectares at Kowai Bush Station, Mount Torlesse, Springfield, South Island’. Advanced to Major in the 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry) in March 1911, he accompanied the regiment’s “Coronation Contingent” to England in 1911. Johnson was placed on the Retired List in September 1921.