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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 576

(x) An impressive Royal Household R.V.M. group of eleven awarded to Yeoman of the Cellar F. J. Reed, late Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Victorian Medal, G.VI.R., silver; 1914-15 Star (34424 Pte. F. J. Reed, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (34424 Pte. F. J. Reed, R.A.M.C.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.VI.R., suspension dated '1919-1939', with 'Thirty Years' Bar (Reed, Frederick James); Denmark, King's Medal of Recompense, Christian X, silver; Belgium, Royal Household Medal for Servants in Foreign Courts, Albert I, bronze; Sweden, Royal Household Medal, Gustaf V, silver with crown; France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, silver, mounted court-style for wear, the Great War medals polished and worn, otherwise very fine and better (11)



Frederick James Reed was born in Hartfield, Sussex on 12 January 1890 and served in the Great War as a Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps, entering the Egypt theatre of war on 14 March 1915. On being demobilised in 1919, he entered into service with the Royal Household as a Footman, a long career that ended on his retirement in June 1950, when he was Yeoman of the Royal Cellar at Buckingham Palace. During that service he was awarded the Royal Household Faithful Service Medal in 1939, with a Bar in 1949 and was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal on 1 January 1945. Reed died in the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead on 23 January 1962, his death certificate giving his occupation as '1st Yeoman King's Cellars'.

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