Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Shooting Medal, obverse: rifleman knelt shooting (W. Barringer, Q.W.R.V.), reverse inscribed, ‘Windsor 1860’, 36mm., silver-gilt, with ‘V.R.’ slip bar and buckle bar; British Red Cross Society War Commemorative Medal 1914-18, with brooch bar; B.R.C.S. Service Medal, three clasps, ‘3 Years Service’, with brooch bar; B.R.C.S. Proficiency Cross, for Red Cross First Aid, reverse inscribed, ‘0128 H. E. Williams’; Southern Railway St. John Ambulance Association Medal, silver, reverse inscribed, ‘Percy Stevenson’; St. John Ambulance Association Examination Cross, bronze, ‘229155 James Hollowood’, with a chain of 21 re-examination ‘date labels’; Royal Army Ordnance Corps Medal, 32mm., bronze, unnamed; L.C.C. School Attendance Medal (2) G.V.R. (T. Murphy; I. Maddick); Duke of Wellington Commemorative Medal, 39mm., white metal; ‘Genuense Ptochotrophium Merentibus’ Medal, by P. Ferrea, 40mm., silver, unnamed; Equestrian Statue of General Grant Medal, presented to the City of Brooklyn, 1896, 51mm., silver, reverse inscribed, ‘John W. Cooper of Committtee’, fitted with loop suspension and with signs of brooch mounting to reverse, generally very fine (12) £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Donald G. Mellen Collection.

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Medal to Williams attributed to Hilda Emma Williams, of 155 Norroy Road, who died as a result of enemy action on 18 June 1944, aged 40 years.