Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Three: Steward W. O. Inglis, Mercantile Marine
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals 1914-18 (Walter O. Inglis), with their original registered envelope and related Authority to Wear War Medals for the Mercantile Marine form; C.Q.D. Medal 1909, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine

Pair: Private W. E. Inglis, Liverpool Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (357603 Pte. W. E. Inglis, L’pool R.), in their card box of issue, extremely fine (5)
£200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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Walter Owen Inglis, who was born in Liverpool in 1863, was serving as a Steward aboard the R.M.S. Republic at the time of her ill-fated voyage from New York in January 1909. Having then served in the Mercantile Marine in the Great War, he was still similarly employed as a Night Watchman as late as 1929.

Walter Edward Inglis served in the 10th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment, and is believed to have been wounded in 1916, following which he transferred to the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and thence to the Royal Defence Corps; sold with copied portrait photograph in uniform.