Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (8) (B.Z.6912 W. C. Woodhouse. Ord. R.N.V.R.; Capt. A. Pearce.; Lieut. E. Gamble.; G-8372 Pte. W. Loveridge. The Queen’s; 34970 Pte. A. Green. North’n. R.; 1069825 Pte. R. H. Baker. 28-Can. Inf.; D. P. Whitehead; Edward J. M. Gale) last officially re-impressed; Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (H. Larcher.; 1466 Sepoy Dherm Khan, 84 Pjbis.); Memorial Plaque (2) (Mohamed Amir; Izat Beig) nearly very fine and better (12) £120-160

Walter Cecil Woodhouse was born in Norwich on 21 October 1899, and joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve for the duration of hostilities on 13 November 1917. He served as an Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Pembroke and Gibraltar, and was shore demobilised on 3 June 1919.

William Loveridge was born in Esher, Surrey, and attested for the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment at Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. He served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 23 July 1918. He is buried in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France.

Richard Henry Baker was born in Quebec, Canada, on 29 August 1897, and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Quebec on 7 November 1917. Posted to the 28th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 May 1918, and was admitted to 54th General Hospital, France, on 8 September 1918, having been gassed. Recovering, he was subsequently admitted to the 3rd Canadian General Hospital, France, on 21 November 1918, suffering this time from influenza and bronchitis. He was discharged at Quebec on 15 February 1919.

Izat Beig, of Kartar Bhagwan, Amritsar, Punjab, served during the Great War as a Follower in the Indian Railway Department, and died in Mesopotamia on 7 December 1918. He is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

Several men with the name Mohamed Amir (including spelling variations) appear on the C.W.G.C. Roll.