Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain E. W. S. Martin, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached 9th (Service) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, who died of wounds in the Mesopotamian theatre of war, 16 February 1917

1914-15 Star (Lieut. E. W. S. Martin. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. W. S. Martin.) nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 August 1917.

Edward William Sidney Martin was the son of J. E. Martin, JP, of Ridgeway, Newport, Monmouthshire. He served during the Great War with the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was attached as a Medical Officer to the 9th (Service) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Martin advanced to Temporary Captain, and died of wounds, aged 41, 16 February 1917.

Captain Martin is buried at Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.