Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Squadron Quartermaster Corporal A. Tombs, 2nd Life Guards

1914 Star, with clasp (2734 L. Cpl., 2/Life Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (2734 C. of H., 2-L.G.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (299113 Sqn. Q.M. Cpl., L.G.), mounted as worn with the ribbon of the Defence Medal; together with a mounted set of four miniature dress medals

Pair: Serjeant G. T. Weaving, Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals (2769 Sjt., R.E.) fine and better (lot) £300-400

The lot sold with a large quantity of associated items, including: Regular Army Certificate of Service, named to Albert Tombs, Household Cavalry; Certificate of Service in the Second Life Guards during the Great War, named to ‘C. of H. A. Tombs’; Old Contemptibles’ Association Membership Certificate, named to A. Tombs; Army First Class Certificate of Education, dated 1921, named to ‘Corporal of Horse A. Tombs, 2nd Life Guards’; Army L.S. & G.C. medal named card box of issue; a quantity of original photographs - Life Guards, other military, hospital scenes - many mounted on card; large framed photograph of a Life Guards officer; framed plaster casting of Life Guards’ badge; London County Council Attendance Medal, G.V.R., silver, 1 clasp, 1912-13 (J. Robinson); County of Middlesex Jubilee Medal 1935, white metal; binoculars in khaki field case; monocular in leather case; respirators (3) - two in original card boxes with address labels - one to ‘Mrs A. Tombs’, another to ‘Mrs E.(?) Tombs’, both of ‘47 Honeycroft Hill, Uxbridge, Middlesex’; the third in its original card box of issue but without address label and in a home-made carrying bag; uniform belt; ‘Vest Pocket Kodak’ Camera, in leather case; Pocket Watch, steel plated (internal condition unknown); Queen Alexandra’s ‘Xmas 1914’ cigarette tin, with cigarettes; ‘Amateur Gardening’ Medallion, 45mm., bronze, in card box of issue; ornaments (4), in wood and brass, each inscribed, ‘Ypres’; The Queen’s Gift Book, in aid of Queen Mary’s Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals, 160pp., illustrated; The Household Brigade Magazine, Spring 1922, 170pp; Second Life Guards Old Comrades’ Association, 14th Annual Report booklet, 1927; sundry other papers and newspapers.

Albert Tombs enlisted into the Household Cavalry at Bristol on 11 July 1910; he had previously served in the 3rd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (T.A.), February 1909-January 1910 and the Imperial Reserve, January-February 1910. With the 2nd Life Guards he served in France, 16 August 1914-22 November 1914 and 21 December 1915-5 November 1916. He was discharged at his own request after completing over 18 years service in January 1930.