Brooches & Medals
Brooches

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.
Medals


"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.