Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family group:

Three: Serjeant C. R. Scates, Army Service Corps

1914-15 Star (S4-044200 L. Cpl., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (S4-044200 Sjt., A.S.C.)

Six: Warrant Officer Class 1 K. C. Scates, Royal Army Medical Corps

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (7262362 W.O.Cl.2, R.A.M.C.), mounted as worn, good very fine (10) £140-180

Charles Robert Scates enlisted into the Army Service Corps at Aldershot on 15 January 1915. Ranked as a Lance-Corporal, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 25 September 1915. He was discharged in August 1919. Sold with copied service papers.

Kenneth Charles Scates was born on 13 March 1916 and enlisted into the Royal Army Medical Corps on 21 March 1934. He qualified as a Nursing Orderly III Class in 1935, II Class in 1936 and I Class in 1937. Scates served in Egypt, October 1935-January 1937; Malta, January 1938-February 1940; ‘Home & Afloat’, March 1941-June 1948; West Africa, June 1948-October 1949, and with B.A.O.R., May 1953-March 1956. Warrant Officer Class 1 Scates was discharged at the termination of his engagement on 20 March 1956. Sold with recipient’s Regular Army Certificate of Service and Soldier’s Record and Pay Book; Army Certificates of Education (3), 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class; Nursing Orderly Certificates (2), 1st & 3rd Class; an American wartime booklet on how to behave in North Africa; four photographs - three of the recipient and sundry papers and cards. Together with an unofficial Edward VIII Coronation medal, gilt base metal.