Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant W. K. Hutty, Northumberland Yeomanry, later Second Lieutenant, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

1914 Star (351 Sjt W. K. Hutty. North’d Yeo.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (351 Sq. Q.M.S. W. K. Hutty. North’d Yeo.); together with aluminium I.D. tag, ‘351 Sgt Hutty W K Northd. Y’ and top of BWM box of issue, good very fine (2) £100-140

William Kennett Hutty was born in Whitby, Yorkshire, in 1885, and was appointed a sorting clerk and telegraphist at the Post Office in 1903. He served with the 1st Battalion Northumberland Hussars during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 October 1914, and was Mentioned in Despatches for services between 25 September 1917 and 24 February 1918 (London Gazette 20 May 1918). He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 17 March 1919, and died at Wallsend, Northumberland, on 30 October 1981.