A Victorian red leather covered lidded box or case, the top inset with a Yorkshire Hussars dress sabretache woven with rose and crown in silver wire on scarlet cloth, within a silver lace border of basket check and velum pattern, 37.5 cm x 30 cm x 8 cm (Provenance: Major Charles Lionel Atkins Ward-Jackson-1869-28 April 1930 educated at Eton, served in the 3rd Yorkshire Regiment from 1891, appointed a Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Hussars 26th May 1897, volunteered for Active Service in the 2nd Boer War late 1899 and seconded to the Imperial Yeomanry 24th February 1900, appointed Lieutenant in the 66th Company of the 16th Battalion, twice mentioned in Dispatches, relinquished Commission in the Imperial Yeomanry August 1901, granted Honorary Rank of Captain after returning to the UK, was appointed Captain in the Yorkshire Hussars 21st May 1902 and resigned in 1907, active during World War I serving with the Yorkshire Hussars in France. Political career - contested Manchester South as a Unionist January 1910 failed to win seat, December 1918 elected as Coalition Conservative for Leominster, holding the seat until the 1922 Election when he transferred to Harrow Constituency in London running as the official Conservative candidate, former Conservative member Oswald Moseley ran as an Independent and won the seat, thereafter)
A Victorian red leather covered lidded box or case, the top inset with a Yorkshire Hussars dress sabretache woven with rose and crown in silver wire on scarlet cloth, within a silver lace border of basket check and velum pattern, 37.5 cm x 30 cm x 8 cm (Provenance: Major Charles Lionel Atkins Ward-Jackson-1869-28 April 1930 educated at Eton, served in the 3rd Yorkshire Regiment from 1891, appointed a Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Hussars 26th May 1897, volunteered for Active Service in the 2nd Boer War late 1899 and seconded to the Imperial Yeomanry 24th February 1900, appointed Lieutenant in the 66th Company of the 16th Battalion, twice mentioned in Dispatches, relinquished Commission in the Imperial Yeomanry August 1901, granted Honorary Rank of Captain after returning to the UK, was appointed Captain in the Yorkshire Hussars 21st May 1902 and resigned in 1907, active during World War I serving with the Yorkshire Hussars in France. Political career - contested Manchester South as a Unionist January 1910 failed to win seat, December 1918 elected as Coalition Conservative for Leominster, holding the seat until the 1922 Election when he transferred to Harrow Constituency in London running as the official Conservative candidate, former Conservative member Oswald Moseley ran as an Independent and won the seat, thereafter)
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