Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Captain C. Goldring, Royal Sussex Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) extremely fine (2) £60-80

Clive Goldring was born in Wood Vale, London on 5 March 1878. He was ordained a Priest of the Church of England at Ripon on 19 March 1905. On 12 November 1908 he married Annie, the third daughter of the late Frederick James Orwin, of Byfleet, Warnham, Sussex, at the Railway Mission Church, Johannesburg. Annie was a Missionary. He became Vicar of Scawley, Lincolnshire in November 1910 before moving back to South Africa in November 1911 when he was appointed Assistant Priest at St. John’s, Bulawayo, prior to becoming the Vicar of Great Drakenstein in July 1913. On 15 August 1914 he was appointed Vicar of Horton-cum-Studley, Oxfordshire. During the war he held a commission in the Royal Sussex Regiment and entered France in May 1917. In August 1922 he returned to South Africa once more, becoming a Schoolmaster at the Boy’s High School, Jeppa, Johannesburg - where his medals were sent.

With damaged named card boxes of issue and copied m.i.c.