Edward VII Volunteer Long Service Medal to the Hampshire Royal Garrison Artillery Volunteers, EVII issue, impressed naming ‘3383 GNR: W. HANNAM. 2 HANTS: R.G.A.V.’ Medal confirmed in Army Order 1st January 1909. Late Rod Flood collection

Indian Mutiny Medal to the 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment for the Capture of Delhi, medal with clasp Dehli, impressed naming, ‘W GREER. 61ST REGT’. Good example. William Greer, medal and clasp confirmed on the roll to the 61st Regiment with the comment ‘Died 11 June 1858’. Please note that transcribed copies of the medal roll have him listed as William Green but he is shown as Greer of the original copy of the roll.

An Interesting Great War Medical Services 1914 Star Medal Group of Four Including a Greek Order of the Redeemer to an Officer who Post War, Went on to Become the Coroner of the Eastern District of London, 1914 Star medal, ‘W.R.H. HEDDY B.R.C.S. & O.ST.J.J.’, British War and Victory medals with M.I.D. emblem on the ribbon of the Victory medal, ‘CAPT. W.R.H. HEDDY’, Kingdom of Greece, Order of the Redeemer, 2nd type, Knight’s breast badge in Pomonis, Athens fitted case of issue. Accompanied by mounted group of miniature medals consisting, 1914 star with August-November clasp, British War and Victory medals with M.I.D. emblem, Greek Order of the Redeemer and the Greek medal for the Greco-Turkish War of 1912-13.Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 10th July 1919.We have not been able to confirm the award of the Order of the Redeemer in the London Gazette, but this is not unusual. William Reginald Huleatt Heddy was born in London on 30th December 1890, his father William Senior being a surgical physician. William followed in his fathers’ footsteps attending Dover College in 1906and in 1908 he entered Middlesex Hospital to study medicine becoming an anaesthetist in 1911. In January 1914 he received his medical diploma of L.R.C.P. and a month later gained his surgical diploma of M.R.C.S.On the outbreak of war in August 1914 William served as a Medical Officer with the British Red Cross in the Lille Mobile Unit landing in France ion 25th October 1914. Commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps in July 1915 with the 1st London (City of London) Field Ambulance, he was promoted to Captain in January 1916. In 1918 he wrote an article for the journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps entitled ‘Anaesthetics in the Field’ based on his war time experiences. He resigned his Commission in July 1920 and went on to serve as a coroner. On 25th January 1934 he was appointed Assistant Deputy Coroner, in 1938 he was Deputy Coroner for St. Pancras and 2 years later he was appointed Coroner of the Eastern District of London. In this roll he was present at the autopsy of Josef Jakobs, a German spy who has the dubious honour of being the last person to be executed in the Tower of London.William retired in March 1956 and died in March 1972 in Ealing, London.It is interesting to note that his son, Brian Huleatt Heddy, born in 1916, served in the SOE during the Second World War and at one point was the Consul for the States of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.

A Poignant Indian Mutiny Medal to the 2nd in Command of the 19th Regiment N.I. Who Committed Suicide Under a Fit of Temporary Insanity, medal with clasp Central India, impressed naming, ‘BT MAJOR W.E. MCPHERSON’. Walter Edward McPherson was born on the Isle of Wight on 21st October 1825, the son of Captain Philip McPherson of H.M.’s 46th and 17th Regiments. He was admitted as a Cadet in the Bombay Army at Poona India in 1841. Attached to the 5th Native Infantry in February 1842 he qualified as an interpreter in Hindustani in February the following year. Promoted Captain on 18th April 1854 and he served with the 24th Native Infantry during the Mutiny. Promoted to Major on 11th December 1861 and he committed suicide at Baroda on 2nd December 1864 in a fit of temporary insanity.Sold with some research.