Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant R. E. Stanford, Royal Artillery, late South Staffordshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (5753 Serjt: R. E. Stanford. S. Staff: Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (61751 A.B.Q.M. Sjt. R. E. Stanford. R.A.) edge bruise to QSA, very fine (3) £80-120

Richard Edgar Stanford was born in Tipton, Staffordshire, on 5 February 1883, and served with the 1st Battalion (from 3rd (Militia) Battalion), South Staffordshire Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War. Following the outbreak of the Great War he re-attested in the Royal Garrison Artillery at Dudley on 2 November 1915, and served with the 146th Siege Battery R.G.A. on the Western Front from 17 August 1916; he also saw service with the 102nd Siege Battery and received one wound stripe for when he had been mildly gassed during active service on 26 March 1918. Following the cessation of hostilities he volunteered for service with the army of occupation in Germany for one year, and was discharged with the rank of Battery Quartermaster Sergeant on 26 November 1919.

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