Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Princess of Wales’s Private Military Hospital, The Gables Souvenir Medallion, by Warrington & Co., London, obverse: bust of the Princess of Wales, with her hospital ship off the South African coast and ‘Transvaal War 1899-1900’ in the fields to left and right, with the circumscription, ‘Souvenir of the Princess of Wales’ Private Military Hospital. The Gables, Surbiton’; reverse: the front of the Gables, with ‘For Sick & Wounded from S. Africa’ in the exergue, with the circumscription, ‘Maintained by Mr & Mrs Alfred Cooper as an adjunct to H.R.Hs. Hospital Ship’, 57mm., silver base metal (ref: B.H.M. 3664 (not listed in silver); Eimer 1846), in damaged case of issue, with card slip, inscribed, ‘Pte. P. Whelan, 1st Connaught Rangers’, edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £70-90

With Q.S.A. roll extract for the 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers showing that 1807 Private P. Whelan was awarded the Queen’s medal without clasp and is listed as ‘Invalided’.