Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victoria Faithful Service Medal, silver, the reverse officially engraved ‘To Mr William Goring, Yeoman of the Silver Pantry for Faithful Services to the Queen during 36 Years 1875’ edge embossed as usual ‘Presented by Queen Victoria 1872’, complete with original tartan riband with integral ‘VR’ suspension device and top riband bar, in Wyon, London, fitted case of issue, small edge bruise, otherwise extremely fine £600-£800

Dix Noonan Webb, June 1991.

Medal presented at Windsor Castle on 22 June 1875.

William Goring was born in 1818 and entered service of Queen Victoria in 1839. He is first listed as an Assistant in the Silver Pantry 1845, and later Groom of the Silver Pantry in 1854, and Yeoman in 1860. He died at 22 Trinity Place, Windsor, on 9 March 1881, and was buried in Clewer Churchyard.