Orders, Decorations and Medals

Southern Mines Inspection District Ambulance League Medal (2), obverse: crossed safety lamp and tools, engraved, ‘F. Cockrane, Capt.’; reverse engraved, ‘Powell’s Tillery, Junior Team’, 30 x 26mm., 9ct. gold, 13.98g., hallmarks for Birmingham 1915; another, obverse engraved, ‘R. Swift’; reverse engraved, ‘Radstock Division, Writhlington Colleries, Senior Team 1914’, 39 x 32mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1914; Durham Mines Inspection District Ambulance League Medal, obverse: crossed safety lamp and tools, engraved, ‘R. Hetherington’; reverse engraved, ‘Shilden Lodge Colliery 1918’, 39 x 32mm., silver; The Lothians Mine Workers’ Ambulance League Medal, obverse: stretcher bearers at the pit-head; reverse inscribed, ‘Loanhead No. 2 1914 Robert Connor’, 34 x 23mm., silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1914, good very fine (4) £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to the Ambulance and Nursing Service from the Collection of James Spencer.

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Powell’s Tillery Steam Coal Company operated in the Tillery Valley, Abertillery, Gwent. Writhlington Colliery, Somerset. Shilden Lodge Colliery, in operation, 1830-1937. Loanhead Colliery, Edinburgh.