15th Jun, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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A First World War OBE Group of Five Medals, awarded to 2.LIEUT. L.(Logie) W.(Weir) WILSON A.S.C.(later Captain Royal Irish Rifles), comprising OBE (Civil), 1914-15 Star, British War Medal (LIEUT.), Victory Medal (LIEUT.) and Coronation Medal 1936, swing mounted as worn, with the minatures, a photocopy of Medal Index Card giving his address as 44 St. Kelvins Pk., Dublin and a short biographical note.
Footnote:- Captain Logie Weir Wilson was taken prisoner by the Germans during the First World War. At the end of the War he entered Trinity College, Dublin where he took a degree. He then went to Sierra Leone, West Africa where he served as the District Commissioner in the Colonial Services and then Chief Commissioner of the Protecturate. He remained in Sierra Leone for thirty years and was awarded the OBE for his services there.
Sold for £400
Estimated at £250 - £300
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 15th Jun, 2022
Highlights to include an extensive collection of police helmet plates, badges, belts, handcuffs, and helmets from the Victorian era and the first half of the 20th century, and an interesting collection of powder horns and flasks. The Ethnographica section includes is a Collection of Inuit Art comprising knives, weapons, utensils and decorative objects
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