Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Acting Sergeant J. C. Clark, London Regiment and Royal West Kent Regiment, onetime attached King’s African Rifles

British War and Victory Medals (2315 A. Sjt. J. C. Clark, 20-Lond. R.), extremely fine (2) £80-100

John Cyril Clark enlisted in the 20th Battalion, London Regiment in September 1914 and first went out to France in March 1915, so would also have been awarded the 1914-15 Star. He subsequently transferred on attachment to the King’s African Rifles in East Africa where, in August 1917, he was accidentally wounded and admitted to Mingoyo hospital. Re-embarked for the U.K. in January 1919, he was placed on the strength of the 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, but was discharged on account of sickness in May 1919, thereby qualifying for the Silver Wound Badge. Accompanying documentation also suggests that he served as a Captain in the 3rd County of London Cadet Battalion in the 1939-45 War.

Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including a letter from the recipient’s employer regarding his enlistment in September 1914 (’My best wishes go with you, and hopes for a speedy return to your old position, which will, of course, be open for you when your military duties are at a end’); Downing Street / Colonial Office letters (3), regarding the recipient’s hospitalisation in East Africa, dated in August-September 1917; H.Q. King’s Africa Rifles demobilisation order, dated 13 January 1917; his Protection and Identity Certificate, dated 9 April 1919, and his Discharge Certificate, dated 8 May 1919, together with other original family documentation.