Coronation and Jubilee Medals 724 Pair: Police Constable W. Wood, Metropolitan Police, late Royal Artillery


Jubilee 1887, 1 clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C. W. Wood. C. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P. C. W. Wood. K. Div.) good very fine (2)


£70-£90


Walter Wood was born in Aspley Guise, Buckinghamshire in 1850. He attested for the Royal Artillery on 27 August 1868 and served with them for 15 years, of which 13 were spent in India. He was discharged in May 1883, with no medal entitlement, and joined the Metropolitan Police on 21 April 1884, serving initially in ‘C’ (St. James’) Division. He subsequently transferred to ‘K’ (Bow) Division, and was pensioned on 26 April 1909.


Sold together with an unrelated King’s Medal for Good Attendance, G.V.R., bronze (L. Ayling.) with ‘1913-14’ bar [N.B. this was the last year that that medal was issued] and top ‘L.C.C.’ riband bar; and two Second World War A.R.P. Wardens’ Badges, silver, one with lapel ‘buttonhole’ suspension, the other with pin-back suspension; and copied research.


725 Three: Police Constable J. S. Henderson, Metropolitan Police


Jubilee 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C. - J. Henderson - 2nd Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police (P.C. J. Henderson. 2nd Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C. J. Henderson.) mounted for display, good very fine (3)


£70-£90


John Sutherland Henderson was born at Wick, Caithness, on 20 July 1870, and prior to joining the Metropolitan Police was a farm servant and a Constable in the Berwickshire Police. He joined the Metropolitan Police on 25 September 1893, being posted to the Portsmouth Division on the same day, and transferred toW(Brixton) Division on 20 September 1905. He resigned fromWDivision on 29 September 1924, having completed 31 years service.


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Sold with copied medal roll for Hants Constabulary listing 22 recipients of this medal. Coronation 1911, County and Borough Police (Supt. J. Cottle, Hants Constabulary.) good very fine


£100-£140


Three: Inspector Sir Henry Pelham, K.C.B., Special Constabulary, who served as Permanent Secretary at the Board of Education 1931-37


Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V. R., 1st issue, 1 clasp, The Great War 1914-18 (Inspr. Henry Pelham) mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £100-£140


Sir (Edward) Henry Pelham was born in Oxford on 20 December 1876, the eldest son of Henry Francis Pelham, President of Trinity College, Oxford, and was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the Board of Education (the predecessor to today’s Department of Education) in 1901, and steadily advanced through the grades of the Civil Service, being appointed Principal Assistant Secretary in 1920, Deputy Secretary in 1929, ands Permanent Secretary in 1931. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1921 New Year’s Honours’ List, and was advanced to Knight Companion of the Bath in the 1933 New Year’s Honours’ List. He retired in 1937, and died in Oxford on 18 December 1949.


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Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband, in card box of issue; Jubilee 1977, Canadian issue, silver, unnamed as issued, in card box of issue, extremely fine (2)


£80-£100


Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband; with Jubilee 1977, Canadian issue, silver, unnamed as issued, generally good very fine (2)


£80-£120 Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued, with lady’s bow riband, in Royal Mint card box of issue, nearly extremely fine £70-£90


Jubilee 2002 (2), unnamed as issued, both in Royal Mint card boxes of issue, with card enclosures, extremely fine (2) £80-£100


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