Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ten: Hon. Captain W. C. J. Farraday, Royal Artillery

British War and Victory Medals (325 A. Sjt. W. C. J. Farraday, R.A.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (325 Cpl. W. C. J. Farraday, R.A.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (1017322 W.O. Cl. II W. C. J. Farraday, R.A.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (65048 Cpl. W. C. J. Farraday, R.F.A.); Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, with Bar, the reverse of the Decoration and Bar officially dated ‘1954’, the first three and the T.E.M. with contact marks and polished, thus good fine, the remainder generally very fine or better (10) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War.

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William Charles John Farraday, who was born in Leyton, Essex in September 1893, served in the 4th Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, in the Great War, his MIC entry verifying his entitlement to the Territorial Force War Medal and Territorial Efficiency Medal (AO 423 of 1923 refers). Adding the Army L.S. & G.C. to his accolades in AO 224 of 1937, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery (Territorials) in May 1939, and gained advancement to Captain & Quarter-Master in November 1942. Farraday was granted the honorary rank of Captain on his retirement after the War and was awarded his Efficiency Decoration and Bar in 1954 (London Gazette 20 July of that year refers). He died in Derbyshire on August 1961.