Three: Quarter Master Sergeant A. R. Greenwood, 4th West Yorkshire Volunteer Rifles

Volunteer Force Long Service, V.R. (Qr. Mas. Sergt. A. R. Greenwood, From March 1862 to November 1887), engraved naming; Volunteers Medal, 1 slip-on clasp, ‘4th W.Y.V.R.’, obverse: volunteer knelt firing rifle, engraved, ‘Challenge Medal, No. 2 Coy., 1871 Sergt. Greenwood, 1872 won by Col. Sgt. Greenwood’; reverse: engraved with a wreath of laurel, ‘1861 Sergt. Cockerham, 1862 Wm. Brown, 1863 Sergt. Cockerham, 1864 J. R. Nixon, 1865 Col. Seg. Brier, 1866 Pt. R. J. S. Nixon; edge engraved, ‘1867 Sergt. Brown, 1868 Corpl. Jenkinson, 1869 Prvt. R. J. S. Nixon, 1870 Lieut. Leeming’, 38mm., silver, scroll suspension; Volunteers Medal, 1 slip-on clasp, ‘V.R.’, obverse: volunteer knelt firing rifle, ‘In Defence’ and engraved, ‘Challenge Medal No. 2 Coy.’; reverse engraved within a wreath of laurel, ‘1875 Corpl. Musther, 1876 Corpl. Stocks, 1877 Pvt. Lambert, 1878 Col. Sergt. Greenwood, 1879 Copl. A. Broadley’; edge engraved, ‘1880 Pvt. Wm. Fox, 1881 Q.M. Sergt. Greenwood, 1882 Q.M. Sergt. Greenwood’, 38mm., silver, scroll suspension, all with silver buckle on ribbons, good very fine (3) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Volunteer Medals from the James N Spencer Collection.

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