Medals to Trumpeters from the Collection of Roderick Cassidy Five: 2nd Lieutenant F. Stevenson, Royal Fusiliers, late Sergeant-Trumpeter, 6th Dragoon Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3418 Pte., 6th Dragoon Gds.); 1914 Star, with slide-on clasp (3418 Sjt. Tptr., 6/D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3418 Sjt. Tptr., 6/D.G.), the first largely officially corrected and with crudely re-riveted suspension claw, severe edge bruising and polished, fine, the last with minor official correction to number, otherwise good very fine (5) £400-500 Footnote Frederick Stevenson first entered the French theatre of war on 16 August 1914, as a Sergeant Trumpeter in the 6th Dragoon Guards. Commissioned into the 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers as a 2nd Lieutenant in March 1917, he was killed in action in the Arras operations on the 29th of the following month; his earlier services in the Boer War are verified by the appropriate medal roll, on which appear annotations that suggest his award was returned for official correction in April 1920.
Medals to Trumpeters from the Collection of Roderick Cassidy Five: 2nd Lieutenant F. Stevenson, Royal Fusiliers, late Sergeant-Trumpeter, 6th Dragoon Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3418 Pte., 6th Dragoon Gds.); 1914 Star, with slide-on clasp (3418 Sjt. Tptr., 6/D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3418 Sjt. Tptr., 6/D.G.), the first largely officially corrected and with crudely re-riveted suspension claw, severe edge bruising and polished, fine, the last with minor official correction to number, otherwise good very fine (5) £400-500 Footnote Frederick Stevenson first entered the French theatre of war on 16 August 1914, as a Sergeant Trumpeter in the 6th Dragoon Guards. Commissioned into the 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers as a 2nd Lieutenant in March 1917, he was killed in action in the Arras operations on the 29th of the following month; his earlier services in the Boer War are verified by the appropriate medal roll, on which appear annotations that suggest his award was returned for official correction in April 1920.
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