Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Southern Mines Inspection District Ambulance League Medal (2), the first 30mm x 26mm, gold (9ct., 13.98g), hallmarks for Birmingham 1915, the obverse depicting crossed safety lamp and tools, engraved ‘F. Cockrane, Capt.’, the reverse engraved ‘Powell’s Tillery, Junior Team’; the second 39mm x 32mm, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1914, the obverse engraved ‘R. Swift’, the reverse engraved, ‘Radstock Division, Writhlington Colleries, Senior Team 1914’; Durham Mines Inspection District Ambulance League Medal, 39mm x 32mm, silver, the obverse depicting crossed safety lamp and tools, engraved ‘R. Hetherington’, the reverse engraved ‘Shilden Lodge Colliery 1918’; The Lothians Mine Workers’ Ambulance League Medal, 34mm x 23mm, silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1914, the obverse depicting stretcher bearers at the pit-head, the reverse inscribed ‘Loanhead No. 2 1914 Robert Connor’, good very fine (4) £180-£220

James Spencer Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2010.

Powell’s Tillery Steam Coal Company operated in the Tillery Valley, Abertillery, Gwent. Writhlington Colliery, Somerset. Shilden Lodge Colliery, in operation, 1830-1937. Loanhead Colliery, Edinburgh.