Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant J. Parsons, Middlesex Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4640 Pte. J. Parsons. Middlesex Regt.); 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (L-4640 Sjt. J. Parsons. 1/Middx: R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-4640 Sjt. J. Parsons. Midd’x R.); Army L.S. & G.C., GV.R., 1st issue (4640 Sjt: J. Parsons. Middx: Regt.); together with a Duke of Cambridge’s Own Inter Company Tournament Prize Medal, silver, the edge engraved ‘1903-4 Hockey. 4640 Lce. Corpl. Parsons. J., H. Coy.’, in Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company, London, case of issue, contact marks and edge bruising, therefore good fine (6) £280-£320

James Parsons was born in Bermondsey, London, in 1870, and attested for the Middles Regiment in 1894. He served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Great War, and on the Western Front during the Great War from 11 August 1914, and suffered a gun shot wound to the left eye in 1915.