Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. group of six awarded to Farrier Staff Serjeant H. A. Martin, 10th Hussars

Military Medal, G.V.R. (4324 Far. S. Sjt., 10/Hrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-19023 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4324 Shg-Sth., 10th Hussars); 1914 Star, with clasp (4324 Far. Sjt., 10/Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals (47017 Sjt., 10-Hrs.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (H-47017 Far. S. Sjt., 10 Hrs.) some with slight edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and better (6) £1400-1600

Ex D.N.W. 7 March 2007.

M.M. London Gazette 26 May 1917.

Henry Alfred Martin was born in Chartham, Kent in 1880 and enlisted into the 10th Hussars on 5 December 1899 and served with the regiment as a Shoeing-Smith in the Boer War. In 1905 he attended the Army Veterinary School at Poona and passed the Elementary examination in the subject. In the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as Farrier Sergeant with the 10th Hussars on 6 October 1914 and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery whilst serving with the regiment in France. He was discharged on 28 July 1921. Henry Alfred Martin was one of seven brothers who served in the Great War.

Sold with original Army Veterinary School Certificate; Character Certificate; Discharge Certificate; a silk lady’s handkerchief - ‘Souvenir d’Ypres’; several paper clippings relating to the recipient; three photographs of the recipient and his family; 10th Royal Hussars ‘On Active Service’ postcard and copied research which includes m.i.c., gazette and Q.S.A. roll extracts confirming clasps - the latter states, ‘C.C. held and R. of K. issued 20.2.04’. Also with an ‘Old Contemptibles Association’ lapel badge, numbered, ‘4500’, and a ‘X Royal Hussars O.C.’ lapel badge, enamelled.