Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Police Constable W. Wood, Metropolitan Police, late Royal Artillery

Jubilee 1887, 1 clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C. W. Wood. C. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P. C. W. Wood. K. Div.) good very fine (2) £70-£90

Walter Wood was born in Aspley Guise, Buckinghamshire in 1850. He attested for the Royal Artillery on 27 August 1868 and served with them for 15 years, of which 13 were spent in India. He was discharged in May 1883, with no medal entitlement, and joined the Metropolitan Police on 21 April 1884, serving initially in ‘C’ (St. James’) Division. He subsequently transferred to ‘K’ (Bow) Division, and was pensioned on 26 April 1909.

Sold together with an unrelated King’s Medal for Good Attendance, G.V.R., bronze (L. Ayling.) with ‘1913-14’ bar [N.B. this was the last year that that medal was issued] and top ‘L.C.C.’ riband bar; and two Second World War A.R.P. Wardens’ Badges, silver, one with lapel ‘buttonhole’ suspension, the other with pin-back suspension; and copied research.