Brooches & Medals
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Yellow and White Gold & Enamel, height
27mm.
1920-56

There are at least four variations of the brooch as seen above.

Leicestershire Yeomanry Old Comrades Association,
2.8 cm x 2.1
cm made by J R Gaunt. Horseshoe button hole fixing.
c1920

Tie Pin
Maker's mark "A. BROS", Sterling Silver
with gilded front. (2cm x 4.5cm)

Brass & Enamel, height 29mm. Each is numbered, the above is
F509. Pin and hook fixing.
c1916-19

"W. Shelton" J544 scratched into the back and what looks to be
an address of 35 Lake Rd.
c1914-16. Possibly the wife of 2709 (255589) Tpr J E Shelton.
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"Arab" tent Pegging 1924-25. The annual camp ended on Whit
Monday with a display of "Yeomanry Sports", a traditional public
event going back well into the nineteenth century, at which the
regiment hoped to augment its funds from the gate money.

Tent Pegging Medal
1915-40
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Members of the HAC Light Cavalry Squadron tent pegging (2008).

 
The medal has been seen, in later years, in use
as a fob watch chain attachment worn with mess kit on the
waistcoat by the LDY.

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