Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Staff Sergeant D. W. Brand, Army Ordnance Corps, late Nigeria Regiment and Nigeria Railways

1914-15 Star (T. Sjt. D. W. Brand. Nig. R.); British War and Victory Medals (T-1269 S. Sjt. D. W. Brand. A.O.C.); Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, nearly very fine and better (4) £240-£280

Belgian Croix de Guerre London Gazette 12 July 1918.

David Winton Brand was born in Airdrie, Scotland, and was by profession a Railwayman, employed prior to the Great War by the Nigeria Railways. Following the outbreak of the Great War, as an Agent of the Crown, he served on attachment as a ‘Volunteer’ with the Nigeria Regiment, and entered the Cameroon theatre of war on 19 September 1914. He later resumed his civil duties and , on returning to the United Kingdom, attested for the Army Ordnance Corps, and served with them on the Western Front.

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