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Auction: 13003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 362

Royal Military Tournament Trophies and Presentation Items Awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A.W. Waite, 10th Hussars, Riding Master at Sandhurst, and a Military Knight at Windsor
A Royal Military Tournament Prize Cup, by Watherston, London, 200mm high x 150mm diameter, silver (Hallmarks for London 1898), inscribed 'Royal Military Tournament 1899. Officers Competitions. Tent Pegging. 1st Prize. Won by Lieut. A.W. Waite 10th Hussars.'

A Royal Military Tournament Rose Bowl, by Mappin and Webb, London, 120mm high x 185mm diameter, silver (Hallmarks for Sheffield 1900), inscribed 'Royal Military Tournament 1901. Lemon Cutting. Officers. 2nd Prize. Won by Lieut. A.W. Waite 10th Hussars.'

A Presentation Hunter Pocket Watch, gold (18ct), unsigned, the reverse inscribed 'Royal Irish Military Tournament 1896 Waterhouse Prize Officers Best Man at Arms A.W. Waite X R.H.', glass loose on face but intact, in working order, with accompanying chain

Gold Vesta Case, inscribed 'A.W.W.', together with the recipient's copy of A Few Useful Notes on Horsemanship; various photographs and newspaper cuttings (lot)

Lieutenant-Colonel Albert William Waite, the grandfather of Squadron Leader J.M. Griffith-Jones, D.F.C., Lieutenant D.L. Griffith-Jones, and Mr. M.A. Griffith-Jones, born September 1857; enlisted in the 3rd (King's Own) Hussars, March 1877; Commissioned into the 10th Royal Hussars as Riding Master, with the rank of Lieutenant, September 1890; served on the Staff during the Boer War, November 1899 to September 1900; Appointed Riding Master, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, with the rank of Major, September 1902, in which post he authored A Few Useful Notes on Horsemanship; retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, September 1912. In 1916 he was appointed a Military Knight at Windsor, a post he held until his death in 1941.

For medals to the Griffith-Jones family see Lots 21, 79 and 80.

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