Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victoria Faithful Service Medal (To Mr John Wagland, Coachman, for Faithful Services during 42 years to the Queen and her predecessor King William IV. 1873) attempted erasure of surname, scratch marks elsewhere to reverse centre, obverse good very fine £700-£900

John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008.

John Wagland was born at Charing Cross in 1814 and entered the service of King William IV as a Postillion on 2 February 1831. He was appointed Assistant Coachman in 1847 and Coachman in 1854. In 1873 he was presented with the Faithful Service Medal of Queen Victoria. Wagland retired from service to the Royal Household in 1879 and was granted use of the Queen’s Cottage, Bushy Park, Teddington, Middlesex. There he died on 24 July 1892. His father and grandfather had been in the Royal Service, and his daughter was, for a time, employed as Nursery Maid to the Prince of Wales’s children.

Sold with two copied photographs of the recipient; copied extract from The Surrey Comet, 30 July 1892, containing his obituary; copied Death Certificate, and other copied research.