Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain D. W. L. Daniels, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, later Labour Corps, who was severely wounded at Gallipoli, 14 October 1915, and wounded for a second time on the Western Front, 30 August 1916

1914-15 Star (2.Lieut: D. W. L. Daniels. W. Rid: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D. W. L. Daniels.); together with five Royal Drawing Society Medallions, the reverse all engraved ‘D. W. L. Daniels’ and dated ‘1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913’ respectively, all in Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Co., London, cases of issue, nearly extremely fine (8) £120-£160

Douglas William Leslie Daniels was born in 1895 and was educated at St. Paul’s School, London. He attested as a Private for the 28th Battalion, London Regiment (Artists Rifles) on 3 September 1914, and was soon after commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment. He served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War in Gallipoli theatre of War from 23 September 1915, and was dangerously wounded by shrapnel to the neck at Suvla Bay on 14 October 1915. Embarking for England on the Aquitania on 21 October 1915, he returned to light duty in April 1916, and proceeded to the Western Front in June 1916 on attachment to the 3rd Battalion in time for the Battle of the Somme. He was wounded a second time, this time an accidental bomb wound wound to the upper left arm, on 30 August 1916, whilst serving in the field with 52nd Brigade Bombing School, and returned to hospital. He subsequently served as a Captain in the Labour Corps, and relinquished his commission on 9 November 1919, still suffering from the effects of his original neck wound.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card and medical records.