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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 360

(x) An impressive Royal Household group of sixteen awarded to S. G. Johnson, Under Butler and later Yeoman of the Royal Cellar at Buckingham Palace

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Victorian Medal, G.VI.R., silver; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, these unnamed; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.VI.R., suspension dated ‘1925-1945’, with ‘Thirty Years’ and 'Forty Years' Bars (Johnson, Sidney G.); Iraq, Republic, Merit Medal; Italy, Republic, Visit to London 1958 Medal, bronzed; Liberia, Republic, Order of the Star of Africa, Merit Medal, silver; Netherlands, Kingdom, Merit Medal, silver; Persia, Kingdom, Order of the Lion and the Sun, Medal of the Order, silver; Portugal, Republic, Queen Elizabeth II Visit to Portugal Medal 1957, silver; Sudan, Republic, Good Accomplishment Medal, silvered; Sweden, Kingdom, Royal Household Medal, Gustaf V, silver with crown, edge marked 'Silver 1952'; Thailand, Kingdom, Order of the White Elephant, Medal of the Order, the first seven mounted court-style as worn, generally very fine and better (16)

Sidney George Johnson served in the Second World War before entering into service with the Royal Household as an Under Butler in 1925. During that service he was awarded the Royal Household Faithful Service Medal in 1945, with a Bar in 1955 and a second Bar in 1965. He was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal on 1 January 1958 whilst acting as Yeoman of the Cellars at Buckingham Palace.

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