Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Acting Sergeant E. Harrison, 12th (3rd Gwent) and 1st Battalions, South Wales Borderers
British War and Victory Medals (34214 Pte. E. Harrison. S. Wales Bord.); together with a Royal Order of the Antideluvian Buffaloes badge, bronze and enamel, unnamed, good very fine

Pair: Corporal R. S. C. Hill, 12th (3rd Gwent) and 2nd Battalions, attached 9th Entrenching Battalion, South Wales Borderers
British War and Victory Medals (28526 Cpl. R. S. C. Hill. S. Wales Bord.), with torn outer envelope of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. H. C. Hill, “Belgaum”, Castle Road, Ke...’, mounted as worn, edge bruising, very fine

Pair: Private E. Jones, 8th Battalion, South Wales Borderers and Labour Corps
British War and Victory Medals (15895 Pte. E. Jones. S. Wales Bord.) with lid of named card box of issue, good very fine (7) £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers.

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Ernest Jones attested for the South Wales Borderers and served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War from their first arrival on the Western Front on 5 September 1915 (entitled to the 1914-15 Star). He later transferred to the Labour Corps and was discharged to the reserve on 4 March 1919.

Sold with copied Medal Index Cards and other research.