Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Major and Quartermaster G. E. M. Ruffell, 5th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment

Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, E.VII.R., silver ands silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1904, the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Capt. & Qr. Mr. G. E. M. Ruffell, 2nd. Vol. Batt. Hants Regt. 1905.’, with integral top riband bar, nearly extremely fine (2) £120-£160

Sold with copied medal roll extract that shows there were only five recipients of the Coronation Medal from the 5th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (the Battalion’s Coronation Contingent): Lieutenant-Colonel Sir G. A. E. Hussey; Captain J. C. Bassett; Major and Quartermaster G. E. M. Ruffell, V.D.; Quartermaster Sergeant J. Knox; and Private B. Gilson.