Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal A. Lintott, Hampshire Regiment, who was wounded at Gallipoli on 21 August 1915

1914-15 Star (10484 L.Cpl. A. Lintott. Hamps: R.); British War and Victory Medals (10484 Cpl. A. Lintott. Hamps. R.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Arthur Lintott); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘113665’, minor official correction to surname on Star (see footnote), good very fine (5) £100-£140

Arthur Lintott was born in Alton, Hampshire, in 1895, and attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Aldershot on 2 September 1914. He served with the 10th Battalion during the Great War at Gallipoli from 5 August 1915, and was wounded by gun shot at Kabak Kayu on 21 August 1915, during the Battle of Hill 60. Evacuated to Mudros, he returned to England on the hospital ship Aquitania on 21 October 1915, and was discharged due to wounds on 5 August 1916, being awarded a Silver War Badge. He subsequently became a postman in Winchester, and was awarded his Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement (London Gazette 23 October 1959). He died in Bournemouth in 1987.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card (which states that the Star was originally issued with the surname ‘Lintoll’, and was returned and re-issued in April 1920); and other copied research.