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A most interesting collection of memorabilia appertaining to Company Sergeant-Major A. T. Green Yorkshire Regiment, a noted shot who served with distinction in the 6th Battalion in Gallipoli: assorted presentation pieces, comprising teapot, maker’s initials ‘C. E. P.’ and hallmarks for Sheffield 1906, approx. 190mm. overall height; milk jug, maker’s initials ‘J. & T.’ and hallmarks for Sheffield 1924, approx. 80mm. at highest point; and plated sugar bowl, the front with engraved inscription, ‘Presented to Sergeant Instructor T. Green by His Comrades in ‘B’ Company, Hovingham, March 1896’, approx. 105 mm. overall height, all with similar shell decoration a presentation silver shooting cup, maker’s initials ‘J. D. W. D.’ and hallmarks for Sheffield 1907, approx. 180mm. at highest point of raised handles, the front with engraved inscription, ‘Presented to the Easingwold Miniature Rifle Club by Mrs. F.J. Haxby Robinson of the Galtres, Easingwold, 1908, Challenge Cup Competition’, together with related black-wooden base bearing six hallmarked shields with recipient names and dates from 1908-1913, three of them to ‘A. T. Green’; and a silver-framed photograph of Green seated with his rifle next to the cup a fine series of shooting awards, comprising The Earl Roberts Challenge Cup Medal (North Yorkshire), gold, unmarked, the obverse with engraved date ‘1908’, 24mm.; The Legard Challenge Cup Medal (North Yorkshire), silver, with gold decorated surround and suspension loop, the obverse with engraved date ‘1907’, 22mm., and another similar, but without decorated surround, this dated ‘1908’, 20mm.; Miniature Rifle Society Clubs’ issues in silver and enamel (3), all bearing Birmingham hallmarks, 30mm., and a related miniature award, together with bronze and enamel issues of the same organisation (2), 30mm., and a related miniature award; Yorkshire Miniature Rifle Association issues in silver and enamel (3), all bearing Birmingham hallmarks, 25mm., together with a bronze and enamel issue of the same organisation, 25mm., this last engraved in the reverse field, ‘Easingwold M.R. Club, 1925, A. T. Green’; and other (untitled) shooting awards of differing design and diameters (4), all silver and bearing Birmingham hallmarks, two of them with enamel work, another with gold central shield, and the last with engraved central shield, ‘A. T. G., 1908’; Yorkshire Regiment cap badges (2), and a National Reserve (York) lapel badge, this last by J. R. Gaunt, in gilt and enamel memorabilia from the Gallipoli campaign, comprising War Office (1915) linen-backed map of the Gallipoli Peninsula, the outer cover bearing an official stamp and the recipient’s inscription, ‘A. T. Green C.S.M., ‘B’ Company, 6th Yorks. Regt.’; together with Green’s pipe with finely etched Yorkshire Regiment crest and ‘Suvla Bay landing, Aug. the 6th 1915’ above, ‘Evacuation Dec. 20th 1915’ to left, and ‘Egypt 1916’ to lower right assorted documentation and photographs, including the Green’s old typed account of his military career, 2pp.; several newspaper cuttings, marriage and death certificates, etc., the whole contained in his original military travelling chest, bearing worn white painted inscription, ‘Cr. Sergt. A. T. Green ...’, a most unusual and interesting collection of memorabilia to a crack shot Gallipoli veteran, the vast majority in good conditi Footnote Arthur Thomas Green enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment in August 1887, direct from the Royal West Surrey Militia - ‘the Battalion my grandfathers and uncles had been in’. Embarked for India in December 1889, he was advanced to Lance-Corporal in May 1892, in which year he attended a Mounted Infantry course with the 19th Hussars at Bangalore. Embarked for Upper Burma in October 1892, Green went on to witness active service in the Kachin Hills, one of 112 men from the 2nd Battalion so employed, and for which he received the relevant Medal & clasp. Having then returned to his unit after six months furlough