the father’s items comprising his medals (Queen’s South Africa with five bars, King’s South Africa with two bars, Long Service and Good Conduct medal), a quantity of Dorset Regiment and other cap badges and buttons, Dorset Regiment ephemera including several character reference letters, his ‘Dorset Regiment Retirement Gift’ silver cigarette case dated May 1919, Dorset Regiment swagger stick, wooden trunk lettered ‘Serg. J. Burton, 2nd Dorset Regt.’, discharge papers dated 1908, Soldier’s Small Book, two writing boxes, a Doulton Lambeth Victoria Jubilee water jug with two beakers, envelope card table, Indian white metal cane handle, silver topped cane, hardwood cane and a quantity of family ephemera including photographs; together with his son’s effects comprising group of three WWI medals, death plaque, scroll, photographs, letter to home dated 6.10.14, ‘Le Touret Memorial’ List published by the Imperial War Graves Commission, 1928 and photographs of Le Touret memorial (a lot)
