Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Orderly J. R. Waight, British Royal Red Cross Society

1914 Star (J. R. Waight, B.R.C.S. & O. St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (J. R. Wright, B.R.C.S. & St. J.J.) note variation in surname; British Red Cross Society Balkan War Medal, 1 clasp, Bulgaria, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1912, reverse inscribed, ‘John R. Waight’, with brooch bar, ‘Balkan War 1912-13’, enamel damage; Bulgaria, Medal of Merit, with royal crown suspension, Ferdinand I, bronze, unnamed; Bulgarian Red Cross Badge of Honour, silver-gilt and enamel, pin-backed, good very fine except where stated (6) £350-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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John Richard Waight served as a Nursing Orderly with Unit 2 of the B.R.C.S. providing care for the Bulgarian sick and wounded during the Balkan War of 1912-13. He again served as an Orderly with the B.R.C.S. during the Great War, entering the France/Flanders theatre of war on 24 October 1914, serving with the Boulogne Unit No. 4.

With copied m.i.c. for ‘Waight’ and ‘Wright’. Bulgarian decorations not confirmed.