Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Jaffray, Bt., 1st Dragoon Guards and Royal Flying Corps, later Warwickshire Yeomanry

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. Sir W. E. Jaffray, Bt.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1935; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, with integral top ‘Territorial’ riband bar, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household.

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Sir William Edmund Jaffray, 4th Baronet of Skilts, was born at Studley, Warwickshire, on 29 July 1895, the second son of Sir William Jaffray, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Alice, daughter of Francis Galloway Esq., and was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st Dragoon Guards on 12 May 1915, and served with them, and with the Royal Flying Corps, in France from 1916. Promoted Lieutenant on 1 July 1917, he was placed on the half-pay list owing to ill health caused by wounds, 9 January 1919, and retired on 17 August 1919. He subsequently joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry, was advanced Major on 28 October 1927, and served as their Commanding Officer, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, from 1935 until 1939.

Sir William Jaffray succeeded to the Baronetcy upon the death of his elder brother, who was killed at Oghratina, Sinai Peninsula, on 23 April 1916, whilst serving with the Worcestershire Yeomanry. He married Miss Anne Paget, daughter of Captain Otho Paget, M.C., on 11 October 1950, with whom he had one son. He died on 24 October 1953, and was succeeded to the Baronetcy by his only son, who is still living.