Four: Sergeant W. E. Fielding, Royal Marines

1914-15 Star (CH. 17659 Bugr. W. E. Fielding, R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (CH. 17659 Pte. W. E. Fielding, R.M.L.I.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (CH. 17659 W. E. Fielding, Sgt., R.M.), contact marks and polished, good fine or better (4) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Kieran Collection.

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William Ernest Fielding was born at Mile End, London in November 1897 and enlisted in the Royal Marine Light Infantry as a Bugler in November 1912. His subsequent seagoing appointments in the Great War were in the battleship H.M.S. Mars (August 1914 to February 1915), the cruiser Chatham (May 1915 to February 1916), largely in the Dardanelles and off Gallipoli as flagship of Admiral de Robeck, and the cruiser Courageous (September 1917 to January 1918), when he would have been present at the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight. Fielding was still serving in the Royal Marines as a Corporal and instructor in the early 1930s.