Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Major W. A. Stringer, Royal Horse Guards

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (306773 Cpl. of H. W. A. Stringer. R.H.G.); Coronation 1953; Jubilee 1977; Jubilee 2002; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (306773 W.O. Cl. 2. W. A. Stringer. RHG.) mounted court style as worn, minor edge nick to first, nearly extremely fine (5) £300-400

William Arthur Stringer served with the Royal Horse Guards and was commissioned Second Lieutenant and Lieutenant on 1 May 1966. Appointed Quarter Master, he was promoted Major on 10 August 1975, and retired on 31 March 1979.

Sold together with the following official documents &c.: Warrant appointing the recipient a Warrant Officer, dated 16 March 1962; Commission appointing the recipient a Second Lieutenant, dated 27 May 1966; Bestowal Document conferring the Liberian Medal of Honour on the recipient, dated Monrovia, 10 July 1962; a group photograph of the St. Lawrence Cricket Club Thursday XI, 1921; Document appointing the recipient a Member of the Weser Vale Hunt, dated 15 July 1992; and a ‘Giles’ cartoon, mounted, the mount inscribed ‘To Major Stringer, With best wishes, from ‘Giles’, ‘75.’