Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Corporal H. W. Coome, Lincolnshire Regiment

1914 Star, with clasp (8062 Pte., 2/Linc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (8062 Cpl., Linc. R.) good very fine and better (8) £160-200

Harold Walter Coombe, enlisted at Stratford into the Lincolnshire Regiment on 25 June 1907. With the 2nd battalion he served in Gibraltar, December 1911-January 1914; Bermuda, January-October 1914; France, 5 November 1914-12 May 1915; Ireland, 1916-17, and France, 3-22 April 1918. He was discharged, ceasing to fulfil Army physical requirements, on 26 January 1921. Sold with two prize medals: 29mm., silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1915, rev. inscribed, ‘2nd Team Inter Batt. Relay Race. 3rd Batt. Manchester Regt. Sports 1916, Lce. Cpl. H. Coombe (sic)’; another, ‘Northern Command Cross Country Association, 28mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1916, rev. inscribed, ‘Championship Trials 1916 Humber Garrison, 2nd 440 Yds.’; together with metal shoulder badge (2) and cap badge. Also with an original photograph of the recipient and copied service details.