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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 821

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Pair: Band-Sergeant W. P. Graves, Royal Scots

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5548 Cpl. W. P. Graves, Royal Scots), the last two clasps loose on riband; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd type (5548 Band-Sjt: W. P. Graves. R. Scots.), mounted swing-style as worn, with a Royal Dublin Fusiliers regimental 'Old Toughs' Medal, 34mm, bronze, featuring the emblems of the tiger and elephant to obverse and reverse respectively, fitted with a clasp engraved '7075459 Bandmaster W. P. Graves 22.6.17 to 1.6.1922', in Carrington & Co., 130 Regent Street fitted leather case of issue, the first with contact marks, overall very fine

Three: Musician S. W. Graves, Royal Horse Guards

Defence and War Medals 1939-45 (400633 C. of H. S. W. Graves R.H.G.); Regular Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st type (400633 Musician S. W. Graves. R.H.G.), mounted swing-style as worn, with two related riband bars, nearly very fine (5)

Walter Parrimore Graves was born at Dover in 1882. Enlisting into the Royal Dublin Fusiliers at Chatham on 18 January 1896, he served as a Lance-Corporal with the 1st Battalion, Royal Scots during the Second Boer War and the Great War (no medal entitlement). In 1915 he passed his examination for Bandmaster at Kneller Hall (Middlesex Chronicle, 20 November 1915) By 1922 he had returned to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, becoming Bandmaster of the 2nd Battalion.

Sydney Walter Graves was the son of the above. Born at Ranikhet, India in 1910, he attended Sunar Boarding School before joining the 2nd Dragoon Guards in 1926. He served with the Royal Horse Guards during the Second World War, and emigrated to Australia in 1973; sold with copied research.

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Sold for
£550

Starting price
£210