Lot 375
A GRENADIER GUARDS OFFICERS STAR/BAR & MID TRIO.
A 1914 Star with Bar named to Lieut T E R Symonds G.Gds. British War & Victory Medals named to Captain T E R Symonds. he was Mentioned in Despatches during the Gt War, retiring from the Guards with Ill Health in 1923 as a Brevet Major. He had served in France & Flanders from the 4th October 1914, invalided home and later attached Staff Corps.
T E R Symons was educated at Eton C1906. He was in E L Vaughans House.
He joined the Grenadier Guards in 1910 and was promoted Lieutenant in 1912, Captain 1915 and Bt Major in 1919.
He was ADC to the Governor and Commander in Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand.
The family had historic ties to Mynde Park, Herefordshire. His ancestor purchased it in 1740, Thomas Edward Raymond Symonds the only son of Captain T R S Symonds and the last male heir, died unmarried in 1928 of cancer at the age of 33. The property was recently on the market with 1,200 acres, at £15,000,000 the then asking price.
With copies of his Funeral report and various informative letters from Guards Officers including a good photograph of him and two other serving officers, etc.
