United Kingdom. A Victory Medal, to Captain Banbury, Eton Graduate, KIA Hollebeke consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac a second SS Long Service

a second SS Long Service Award

GENEVE" and engraver marked "Huguenin"

measuring 69 mm in diameter

Accompanied by a CD containing twelve pages with copies of his Index Cards

the obverse with the motto “Wenn die Väter dei Schwerter Zerschlagen Schmieden die Söhne neue” (When the fathers shatter swords

United Kingdom. A Victory Medal, to Captain Banbury, Eton Graduate, KIA Hollebeke consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac a second SS Long ServiceVictory Medal. (CAPT. W. M. V. BANBURY). Naming is impressed, very fine. Footnote: Captain William Michael Victor Banbury of the Rifle Brigade. Captain Banbury was killed in action 17 August 1917. Born in 1885 and educated at Eton, he was gazetted Second Lieutenant on 23rd May 1906, and posted to the 4th Battalion The Rifle Brigade then in Malta. He became Lieutenant on 24th March 1910 and resigned his commission on 23rd November 1912 going on the