30th Jun, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
Lot 25
 

25

A Victorian Epaulette to the Military Knights of Windsor, with gilt metal crescent enclosing a...

A Victorian Epaulette to the Military Knights of Windsor, with gilt metal crescent enclosing a raised bullion thread embroidered shield below the VR cypher and with bullion embroidered star to the Most Honourable Order of the Bath GCB, on a black wool field with gold lace border, the reverse lined in black wool and with RIGHT label, in a black japanned tin Provenance:-The epaulette was worn by the vendor's 3rd great-uncle John Loraine White. He was born in Gibraltar on 17 February 1789, the son of Captain John White, an Army surgeon. He enlisted in the Army and served in the 3rd Battalion, 14th (The Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot, in various engagements during the Peninsula War and later at Waterloo with his company 'Captain J.L. White's Company'. Later, he served in the Ionian Islands Militia and by the 1861 census he was Barrack Master at the Grenadier Guards barracks in London. By 3 March 1866 (Aldershot Military Gazette) he had been appointed a Military Knight of Windsor, a position he held until his death in the Army Officers' Hospital in London on 13 March 1879 in his 91st year.

Sold for £100
Estimated at £100 - £150


 

Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 30th Jun, 2021

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