Royal Welsh Fusiliers

[bigjarofwasps]

Hi Guys,

Came across this whilst surfing Ebay, thought it might be of interest, and topic of conversation for the fourm.

SOLID GOLD WW1 I SERVED MEDAL ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS Item number: 220230428395

HEAVY 17.5 GRAMS

9ct SOLID GOLD

WORLD WAR 1

I - SERVED MEDAL

ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS

- ENGRAVED WITH -

PTE L DOWNES - ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS

Complete with The ORIGINAL box,

T Armstrong, Jewellers, Manchester

Gordon.

[bigjarofwasps]

[bigjarofwasps]

[leigh kitchen]

Solid gold? Do those hallmarks really add up?

[bigjarofwasps]

Solid gold? Do those hallmarks really add up?

Good question, it is Ebay after all, but I imagine that the least it will be 9ct?

[bigjarofwasps]

Been thinking why would a Welsh Regiment medla have the English flag on it, I know a vast amount of RWF men came from Birmingham, etc...has any got any ideas? A fake maybe?

[leigh kitchen]

Awarded by an English city / town to its ex-servicemen, who could have been in Welsh, Scottish, Irish, English regiments? Also, the Welsh seem to have been the least "appreciated" junior partner in the Union, basically swallowed by England, unrepresented on the Union Flag, maybe St Davids Saltire & the red dragon were'nt as significant as they are today.

But in solid gold? There's nothing to indicate that the medals are for particularly notable service, or "for being killed", so perhaps gilt silver for economy?

There's presumably something more than simply giving a medal to every man from the community who served, perhaps given by an important patron (Lord Derby & the like) who sponsored a particular recruiting drive or battalion or similar?

[paul wood]

Hallmarked Birmingham 1919. The hallmarks looks perfectly genuine.

All the best,

Paul