Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (5820317 W.O. Cl. 2 W. Maple, Suffolk R.) nearly extremely fine £100-£140

William Maple was born in Lewes, Sussex, on 26 June 1891 and served in the Great War as a Sergeant, serving with the South Staffordshire Regiment, Herefordshire Regiment and Suffolk Regiment, and was awarded the British War and Victory Medals. After the Great War he served with the 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment on home service, in Ireland, Gibraltar and then India. Promoted to Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant in 1925, he received his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1932, and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by Army Order 98 of 1953. He died in Cambridge on 10 November 1958.