Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An R.V.M. group of five awarded to Percy Godfrey, Farm Worker, Sandringham Estate - awarded a ‘Fifty Year’ clasp to his Royal Household Faithful Service Medal

Royal Victorian Medal, E.II.R., silver, unnamed, in Royal Mint case of issue; Jubilee 1935, unnamed, in card box of issue; Coronation 1953, unnamed, in card box of issue; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.VI.R., suspension dated, ‘1922-1942’ (Godfrey, Percy) with bars for ‘Thirty Years’, Forty Years’ and ‘Fifty Years’ - these loose, medal in Royal Mint case of issue; Royal Agricultural Society of England Long Service Medal, 1 clasp, 50 Years (Percy John Godfrey 46 Years’ Service) bronze, with ornate brooch bar, in John Pinches, London case of issue; together with a silver Match Case, 58 x 44mm., hallmarks for Birmingham 1939, inscribed, ‘Sandringham Estate, Percy Godfrey on Active Service Xmas 1939’; Cricket Prize Medal, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘S.D.C.L. 1948’, and an enamelled lapel badge, ‘R.A.S.E. Long Service’, generally extremely fine (8) £600-700

R.V.M. awarded on 2 June 1973 to Godfrey as a Farm Worker on the Sandringham Farm.

With award certificates for the Jubilee Medal 1935; Coronation Medal 1937 (not with lot) and Coronation Medal 1953. The ‘Thirty’ and ‘Fifty Year’ clasps with associated slips from the Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace to Godfrey of Wolferton Farm, Sandringham - the latter in an envelope addressed to the recipient. Also with a paper clipping of the Court Circular announcing that Mr P. A. J. Godfrey had the honour of being decorated with the R.V.M. by H.M. The Queen.

With The Royal Victorian Order, Order of Service, St. George’s Chapel, 14 April 1983.