Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Squadron Sergeant-Major C. Hughes, 21st Lancers

1914-15 Star (L-1152 Cpl., 21st Lrs.); British War and Victory Medals (L-1152 Cpl., 21-Lrs.), the second with edge nicks and slightly slack suspension, a little polished, thus generally nearly very fine (3) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Tom Gustard Collection of Medals & Militaria and to the 21st Lancers.

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Charles Hughes, who was advanced to Corporal in November 1913, first went into action in the regiment’s celebrated charge at Shabkadar on 5 September 1915 (his MIC entry confirms). Advanced to Lance-Sergeant in the same month, and to Sergeant in January 1917, he saw service in the Scottish Horse Yeomanry after the War, attaining the rank of Squadron Quarter-Master Sergeant prior to his retirement in the mid-1920s.