Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. Hope-Vere, Lanarkshire Yeomanry

British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Territorial Force War Medal (Lt. Col., Lanark Yeo.); Coronation 1902, silver; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., the reverse hallmarked 1920, extremely fine (5) £300-350

James Charles Hope-Vere was born in London in 1858, eldest son of W. E. Hope-Vere, of Craigie Hall and Blackwood, and Lady Mary Boyle, sister of 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery. He served as Major and Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel, Lanarkshire Yeomanry, in France 1917-19 (despatches), was Chairman of the Territorial Force Association of Lanarkshire, and D.L. and J.P. for Lanarkshire. He died on 6 September 1933.