Orders, Decorations and Medals

An R.V.M. group of five awarded to Serjeant E. C. Carew, Liverpool Regiment, late Grenadier Guards

Royal Victorian Medal, E.VII.R., bronze (No.13614 Private E. C. Carew, 1st Bn. Gren. Gds.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (13614 Pte., 1/G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (13614 Pte., G. Gds.), B.W.M. re-mpressed; Coronation 1937, unnamed, mounted as worn, fine and better (5) £200-240

Edgar Charles Carew was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset on 29 May 1886. A railway Porter by occupation, he attested for the Grenadier Guards at Bristol on 19 February 1908, aged 21 years, 9 months. On service at Home, Private Edgar Charles Carew, was one of a number of men of the King’s Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, who were awarded the Royal Victorian Medal in bronze for their services on the occasion of the funeral of King Edward VII. On 19 February 1911 he was transferred to the Army Reserve on the termination of his period of service and was employed as a Police Constable. Mobilised with the onset of war, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 6 October 1914, serving with the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. At Ypres, 2 November 1914, he received a gunshot wound to the left shoulder and lung and on 3 December 1914 was invalided to England. After treatment he was posted in July 1915 to the 21st Reserve Battalion Liverpool Regiment. Promoted to Serjeant in September 1915 he subsequently served as an Instructor with the 26th and 3rd Battalions in England. Carew was discharged from the Army in December 1918 and was employed by the Gloucestershire Constabulary. In the Coronation Medal 1937 nominal roll he is recorded as a Police Sergeant in Gloucestershire. Sold with a quantity of copied service and medical papers.