Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Royal Household group of six awarded to Private A. Humphrey, Norfolk Regiment, later a Carpenter on the Sandringham Estate

1914 Star, with clasp (6878 Pte. A. Humphrey. 1/Norf: R.); British War and Victory Medals (6878 Pte. A. Humphrey. Norf. R.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.VI.R., suspension dated ‘1920-1940, with Thirty Years additional award bar (Humphrey, Arthur) mounted court-style as worn, lacquered, good very fine (6) £600-£800

Arthur Humphrey was born at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, in 1886 and attested for the Norfolk Regiment in 1904. He transferred to the Reserve in 1912, but was recalled to the Colours in August 1914, and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914. He was discharged in May 1918, unfit for further service.

In 1920 Humphrey joined the staff on the Sandringham Estate as a Carpenter, and was awarded his Royal Household Faithful Service Medal in February 1940, and a Thirty Years additional award bar in February 1950. He retired in 1951, on a pension of 18 shillings a week.