11th Dec, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
  Lot 48
 

48

A First/Second World War Father and Son Group of Medals, comprising British War Medal and Victory Medal awarded to 105633 DVR.E.(Edwin) NELMES, R.F.A., with photocopies of Medal Index Card, Post-Award Correspondance etc, and 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medal, in postal box of issue, awarded to 2734360 Guardsman Edwin Nelmes, 1st Bn. Welsh Guards, with two photographs, a Household Brigade medallion, two Army Certificates of Education, a St John Ambulance Association certificate, two printed entries to show that he was wounded on two seperate occasions, and a postcard to his parents

Sold for £100
Estimated at £100 - £150


 

Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 11th Dec, 2024

The sale will include a large selection of Victorian, First and Second World War and Post-War medals and Civil awards, and a variety of cap and other badges, cloth insignia and helmet plates.

A good private collection offers Victorian and Edwardian military headgear and a number of scarlet tunics to local regiments including the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, the Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) and the Northumberland Fusiliers.

Edged weapons include a private collection of British Cavalry swords, alongside bayonets and fighting knives; and from a further private vendor is a good collection of antique firearms, pistols and revolvers.

The ethnographic section of the sale will see notable tribal weapons from Fiji and Australia.

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