Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin

Six: Richard Keen Williams, a Keeper at Sandringham

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (6824 Pte., Vol. Co. Glouc. Rgt.); Defence; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these unnamed; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.V.R., suspension dated, ‘1910-1930’, with ‘Thirty Years’ clasp (R. K. Williams); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 1st issue, 3 clasps, The Great War 1914-18, Long Service 1929, Long Service 1939 (Richard K. Williams) mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (6) £420-460

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Richard Keen Williams served in the Volunteers and as such served with the Gloucestershire Regiment in the Boer War. In 1910 he entered the Royal Service and was employed as a Keeper at Sandringham, receiving the Royal Household Faithful Service Medal in 1930 and clasp in 1940. During the Great War, Williams served as a Private in the Suffolk Regiment, joining on 9 December 1915 and serving throughout on Home Service. He was also a member of the Sandringham Volunteers and a long standing member of the Norfolk Special Constabulary. With copied research.