Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grenadier Guards interest, an old brass tobacco box, approx. 90mm diameter, the hinged lid engraved with V.R. cypher, crown and sceptre, regimental colours and other devices, named ‘Wm. Parker Serjeant 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards’; engraved around the waist ‘Wm. Parker. Born April 20th 1803. Enlisted Jany 11.1827. Appointed Corporal 1st May 1828. Do. Serjt. June 13. 18[3]4’; the bottom engraved with sentimental poem, ‘Farewell but not forever / The chain of Holy love / Tho’ doomed on earth to sever / Shall yet be linked above’, several dents but good condition for age £150-200

William Parker, by trade a schoolmaster, was born at Bolton, Lancashire, and attested for the Grenadier Guards on 12 January 1827, aged 23. He does not appear to have seen any overseas service and was discharged at London on 23 February 1848. Sold with copied discharge papers.