Auction Catalogue

17 & 18 September 2009

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 498

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18 September 2009

Hammer Price:
£170

1914 Star (1789 Pte. W. Cross, Oxf. Yeo.) nearly extremely fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Great War Medals to Yeomanry Regiments.

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Collection

Wilfred Cross enlisted on 28 January 1913. Serving with the Oxfordshire Yeomanry, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 20 September 1914. He was discharged on 11 September 1916. Members of an Oxford Yeomanry patrol are believed to have been the first Territorial Force soldiers to engage the Germans in 1914. With copied m.i.c.