Volunteer Officer's Decoration, VR and other items

Sold for £440

Volunteer Officer's Decoration, VR, silver, silver-gilt, hallmarks for Garrards, London 1892, in Garrard case of issue with miniature dress award, together with WWI pair, British War and Victory Medals (Major K.E. Aitken.), extremely fine, a piece of shrapnel with note inscribed 'The might have killed Daddy when it hit him on the last night of 1914-17 War, his Comp took the gun', plus a tin of sundry regimental buttons including 16 silvered buttons of the Dunbartonshire Yeomanry Cavalry c.1717

(Qty: small box )

Major Kenneth Edmonstone Aitken was born in Richmond, Surrey in 1882, he served on the Western Front with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry from 5 October 1917 and was attached to the Leicestershire Regiment,