Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 2nd December 2025
Lot 33
A Siberian Intervention group of four medals to Sergeant George Robert Lillington, Hampshire
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £1080
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Description
A Siberian Intervention group of four medals to Sergeant George Robert Lillington, Hampshire Regiment: British War Medal 1914-20 and Victory Medal (355102 SJT. G. R. LILLINGTON. HAMPS. R.); Territorial Force War Medal (208 PTE. G. R. LILLINGTON. HAMPS. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, George V (355102 SJT G. R. LILLINGTON. 9/HAMPS: R.), extremely fine or better, the silver medals toned, [4]; framed with a small quantity of 9th Battalion Hampshire Regiment insignia.
The 1st/9th (Cyclists) Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment spent much of the Great War stationed in the United Kingdom and India, before being deployed to Siberia in October 1918 as part of the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War. According to a later news article, Sergeant Lillington met and married a Russian woman, Ludmilla Martinova, and was captured by the Bolsheviks and detained for several months before returning to the UK to be reunited with her.