Five: Gunner W. D. T. Wills, Royal Horse Artillery, later Corporal, Middlesex Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 19 October 1916

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Modder River, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (9483 Gnr: W. D. T. Wills. T. Bty: R.H.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (9483 Gnr: W. D. T. Wills. R.H.A.); 1914-15 Star (3749 Cpl. W. D. T. Mills. Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3749 Cpl. Wills. Midd’x R.) mounted court-style, light contact marks to the Boer War pair, these very fine; the Great War trio nearly extremely fine (5) £260-£300

William David Turvey Wills was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, in 1877 and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery at Woolwich on 6 May 1895. He served with “T” Battery in South Africa during the Boer War from 26 September 1899 to 22 May 1902, with the 1 Pounder Maxims (Pom Poms), and was discharged on 5 May 1907, after 12 years’ service. Re-enlisting in the Middlesex Regiment, he saw further service with the 8th Battalion during the Great War in the Egyptian theatre of War from 1 September 1915, and died of wounds on the Western Front on 19 October 1916. He is buried in Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte, France.

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