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108<br />

Duke of Gloucester’s Loyal Volunteers<br />

(Middlesex) 1804<br />

A circular struck medal, 43mm, silver, obverse<br />

featuring Britannia seated, a lion couchant at her feet,<br />

presenting a palm branch to a soldier with rifle <strong>and</strong><br />

fixed bayonet, reverse all engraved ‘Prize Medal the<br />

gift of Sir Wm. Pulteney Bt. won by Corporal Richard<br />

Cox Grenadier April 13, 1804’, surrounded by ‘Duke<br />

of Gloucester’s Loyal Volunteers’, good very fine,<br />

pierced with ring suspension<br />

£120-140<br />

A similar medal won by a Corporal in the 4th Company, 13th<br />

April 1804 is referenced in Hastings Irwin<br />

<strong>orders</strong>, deCoratioNs, CampaigN medaLs aNd miLitaria<br />

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Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen (Middlesex<br />

Rifle Volunteers) 1814<br />

A circular finely casted <strong>and</strong> chased medal, 45mm,<br />

silver, obverse with central skull <strong>and</strong> crossbones<br />

surrounded by a serpent seemingly devouring itself<br />

<strong>and</strong> open laurel wreath, ‘Acrotormentarian’ engraved<br />

above, <strong>and</strong> ‘Society’ engraved below, reverse inscribed<br />

‘R.L.V.R. Presented by the Acrotormentarian Society<br />

of Riflemen for Merit at Arms 1814.’, good very fine,<br />

with integral ring suspension<br />

£140-180<br />

PROVENANCE:<br />

Colonel Murray Collection 1926<br />

Sotheby, January 1973

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