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Lot 541
2nd Bn West Riding Regiment Officer Prisoner of War Casualty Medal Group & Ephemera.Awarded to Second Lieutenant Archibald Herbert Larcombe who died as a POW within weeks of the end of the Great War Comprising: British War Medal, Victory Medal “2 LIEUT A.H. LARCOMBE”, Bronze Memorial Plaque “ARCHIBALD HERBERT LARCOMBE”, Memorial Scroll. Accompanied by a number of photographs taken as a POW. ... Letter from a fellow Officer after Larcombe’s capture. ... Letter informing of his death. ... etc. The Memorial Plaque and Scroll are mounted into a contemporary glazed frame (glass cracked). Second Lieutenant Archibald Herbert Larcombe a native of Frome was commissioned on the 22nd November 1916. Proceeding to France he was serving with the 2nd Bn Duke of Wellingtons Regiment the West Riding Regiment. A letter accompanying the lot was received by the family on the 20th May 1917. Sent by 2nd Lieutenant William Ewant Horsley a friend, he reported that Archibald had been wounded during an attack almost reaching the Battalion objective he was known to have crawled into a shell hole with the intention of making the British lines after dark. The German counter offensive cut off his position and there was a strong chance he along with a number of his men had been captured. This turned out to be the case with a number of original postcard photographs showing Archibald with fellow prisoners. A letter dated 9th January 1919 from the Central Prisoners of War Committee confirmed he died in the “ lazarett at Ohrdruf on the 26th October 1918”.
Lot 85
A miscellaneous collection to include a pair of three branch two-sectional silver plated candle sticks, a further pair of silver plated candle sticks and two tureens, together with two large Staffordshire flat back figure groups, (Napoleon and another) together with a clear cut glass ship's decanter and a similar trio of slender glasses with long stems, a pair of continental porcelain desk lamps (A/F), a pair of small continental porcelain figures of a shepherd and shepherdess and a tall blue vase (17).
Lot 45
A pair of 19th Century vine etched glass decanters, with faceted stoppers, 26cm high; large pair of Victorian glass decanters, 35cm high; a cut glass and silver mounted decanter; another cut glass decanter; a 19th Century cut glass sweetmeat dish; a pair of spiral twist decorated glasses and a silver decanter label
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