Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. D. Seamarks, Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Air Force

1914-15 Star (65526 Pte. W. D. Seamarks R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (300431. Pte. 2. W. D. Seamarks. R.A.F.) nearly extremely fine (3) £80-120

William David Seamarks was born in Rushden, Northamptonshire, on 26 March 1891, and attested for the 4th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment in May 1915. He transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 September 1915. He subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a Batman, and on 1 April 1918 was posted to 22nd Balloon Company, Royal Air Force, in Salonica. He returned home on 10 October 1918 and was transferred to the Royal Air Force Reserve on 22 February 1919. He died in 1978.

Sold together with an original photograph of the recipient with his wife and daughter.