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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 596

A charming Cavalry watercolour by Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. Walford D.S.O.

Watercolour on paper, 340mm x 240mm approx. featuring five depictions of a Cavalry Officer, with the inscription above '"Celebrities in Glass Houses" No. 45. "Captain Canter" IInd (King's Furze) Dragoons: Sometime Adjutant-in-Ordinary to the Royal North "Bumperkin Bucolics" (Terrot-orials).', signed J. C. Walford 1908 to the right bottom, very fine

[D.S.O.] London Gazette 11 November 1914:

'119th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. For gallant conduct at Eloges on the 24th of August, where he was wounded in two places, and at Le Cateau on the 26th of August, where, in spite of pain from his wounds, he showed a fine example in bringing limbers and teams up under a heavy fire.'

John Colquhoun Walford was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 23rd July 1901, aged 19. Walford became a Lieutenant in 1904 and Captain in 1914, when his D.S.O. was won; he finished up a Lieutenant-Colonel.

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Sold for
£35

Starting price
£30