Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The R.V.M. group of fourteen awarded to Monsieur H. A. Cedard, Chef to H. M. King George V

Royal Victorian Medal, E.VII.R., silver, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1897, silver; Coronation 1902, bronze; Coronation 1911; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue, suspension dated ‘1902-1922’, with 1st issue ‘Thirty Years’ Additional Award Bar (Henri Cedard.); Afghanistan, Kingdom, Royal Gold Medal; Japan, Empire, Order of the Rising Sun, 7th Class breast badge, silver and enamel, Norway, Kingdom, Haakon VII Coronation Medal 1906, silver; Austria, Empire, Service Medal, gilt; Italy, Kingdom, Emmanuel III Gold Medal for Recompense, gilt; Belgium, Kingdom, Albert I Medal for Service, gilt; Romania, Kingdom, Faithful Service Cross, gilt; France, Third Republic, Gold Medal of Honour, reverse engraved ‘H. A. Cedard, June 1913’; Denmark, Kingdom, Medal for Service, silver-gilt, all mounted in a glazed display frame, good very fine and better (14) £1400-1800

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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Henri Auguste Cedard was born in 1861 and entered Royal Service as Chef to H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught. Appointed as Chef to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales following the reorganisation of the Royal Household following Queen Victoria’s death, he was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal on 14 January 1907, and remained in the service of the same master following the latter’s accession as King George V in 1910. He received various Foreign awards, notably the Belgian Royal Household Medal following the State Visit in July 1921; the Italian Royal Gold Medal in May 1924; and the Afghan Royal Gold Medal in May 1928. Awarded his Faithful Service Medal in May 1922, he was awarded the Thirty Years Bar to it in May 1932. He died on 2 October 1935, whilst living at Clapham Common, London.

Sold together with a photograph of the recipient taken in Bognor Regis in 1929, whilst the King was there recuperating from his illness.