Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Captain E. C. Whiteley, Royal Engineers

1914-15 Star (Capt., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Capt.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed; School of Military Engineering Haynes Medal (2nd Lieut. E. C. Whiteley, R.E. 1910), this last in case of issue, nearly extremely fine (5) £400-500

M.I.D. London Gazette 5 April 1016 (Mesopotamia).

Edward Claude Whiteley was born in Madras, India on 11 January 1889. Educated at Wellington College (Orange House, 1903-06), where he was a member of the Rugby XV. He then passed into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1907, where he was member of the Rugby XV and was selected to represent the Academy at Bayonets in the Military Tournaments. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 18 December 1908 and a promoted a Lieutenant on 1 January 1911, in which year he transferred to the 3rd Bombay Sappers and Miners. A winner of the Haynes Medal in 1910; the following year, serving with the 1st Sappers and Miners, he was on the Durbar Committee. With the onset of war, he entered the Mesopotamia theatre of war with the 22nd Field Company on 5 November 1914 and was promoted to Captain on 18 December that year. His Sapper company was employed as infantry. He was killed in action at Shaiba on 14 April 1915. He was the son of J. J. Whiteley of 49 Wimborne Road, Bournemouth. His name was perpetuated by the ‘Whiteley Bridge’ over the Ashar Creek near Basra. He was buried in the Basra War Cemetery. Sold with a quantity of copied research.