An Original First Volunteer Movement Shooting Award of the Second Lancashire Volunteers, silver, 39 mm., obverse inscribed '2nd Regiment LV 5th Company", reverse inscribed "Lt.Cl.Hollinshead to RG Best Shot 17th.Septr, 1805", small piercing for suspension, very fine; A Rare Presentation Regimental Medal of the First Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, silver, 65 mm., obverse inscribed LIFE HONORARY MEMBER 1ST.L.R.V. within a wreath, reverse inscribed "Presented to Major George Hunter Robertson by Lieutt Col. Steble, the Officers and All Ranks of the Regiment. as a token of Esteem on his resigning his commission January 1869", very fine, in fitted damaged presentation case the lid with gilt lettering "G.H.B. 1st. Lanc. R.V." (2)

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An Original First Volunteer Movement Shooting Award of the Second Lancashire Volunteers, silver, 39 mm., obverse inscribed '2nd Regiment LV 5th Company", reverse inscribed "Lt.Cl.Hollinshead to RG Best Shot 17th.Septr, 1805", small piercing for suspension, very fine; A Rare Presentation Regimental Medal of the First Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, silver, 65 mm., obverse inscribed LIFE HONORARY MEMBER 1ST.L.R.V. within a wreath, reverse inscribed "Presented to Major George Hunter Robertson by Lieutt Col. Steble, the Officers and All Ranks of the Regiment. as a token of Esteem on his resigning his commission January 1869", very fine, in fitted damaged presentation case the lid with gilt lettering "G.H.B. 1st. Lanc. R.V." (2)

Lot Essay

INDENTMajor George Hunter Robertson, J.P. was one of the first to offer his services in the great Volunteer Movement which had its inception in Liverpool. He lived to become the oldest Volunteer in the country, and in recognition of this fact he was invited to attend the King's Levee in 1911. Major Robertson died in February 1912.

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