Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private H. Wallace, Royal Berkshire Regiment
1914 Star with clasp (7344 Pte. H. Wallace. 1/R. Berks: R.); Victory Medal (7344 Pte. H. Wallace. R. Berks. R.); together with the recipient’s riband bar with rosette; St. John Ambulance Association Re-Examination Cross, bronze, reverse inscribed ‘335854 Herbert E Wallace’, with 2 bars, 1932, 1949, the reverse of first bar inscribed ‘335854’; an Old Contemptible Association lapel badge, reverse numbered ‘851’; and the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘B85203’, very fine

Five: Private L. C. Humphrey, Dorset Regiment, later Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
1914-15 Star (8587 Pte. L. C. Humphrey. Dorset. R.); British War and Victory Medals (8587 Pte. L. C. Humphrey. Dorset. R.); Defence Medal; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (8587 Pte. H. C. Humphrey. Dorset Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming, mounted as worn, the Great War awards heavily worn and polished therefore fine and better

Pair: Private W. M. Wallace, Royal West Surrey Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (63730 Pte. W. M. Wallace. The Queen’s R.) nearly very fine

Three: Private J. Wallace, Devonshire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (69227 Pte. J. Wallace. Devon. R.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (John Wallace); together with a silver prize medal, the obverse engraved ‘J. Wallace, Winner, Strete Steeplechase 1903’, nearly extremely fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (7668 Pte. H. Mace. E. Kent. R.; 47709 Pte. J. Wallace. Rif. Brig.) naming partially erased on first, very fine (14) £100-£140

Herbert Wallace attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 10 August 1903 and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 September 1914. He was discharged due to wounds on 30 April 1916 and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

Lionel Carolus Humphrey was born in Northiam, Sussex in 1890. He attested for the Dorset Regiment on 4 January 1909 and served with the 2nd Battalion in the Asiatic Theatre (Mesopotamia and Bushire) during the Great War from 6 November 1914. The 2nd Battalion was in India (Poona) when war broke out, part of the 16th (Poona) Brigade, 6th Indian Division. It took part in the Mesopotamian campaign, and was besieged in Kut and captured when General Townshend surrendered in April 1916. Reconstituted in July 1916 it became Corps Troops in the Tigris Corps and in January 1917 it was allocated to 9th (Sirhind) Brigade, 3rd Indian Division with which it went to Egypt in April 1918 and from there to Palestine where it was when the war ended. Humphrey’s medal roll entry and index card show him to have transferred at some stage during the Great War (and possibly before any involvement at Kut) to the 1st Garrison Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers (service number G/25322) sometime before his discharge in Dublin on 5 May 1919 on grounds of sickness (Surplus to military requirements, having suffered impairment since entry into the service) and his subsequent receipt of a Silver War Badge. He died in Sussex in 1982.

Note: Humphrey’s entitlement to the Delhi Durbar 1911 Medal is not confirmed.

William Moses Wallace was born in Cowfold, Sussex in 1899. He initially served during the Great War with the 3rd Battalion, Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) prior to transferring to the 2/4th Battalion and then later transferring to the 1/8th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment.

Herbert Mace attested for the East Kent Regiment on 4 June 1915 and served during the Great War with them on the Western Front from 31 August 1915. He transferred to 587 Company, Labour Corps, was discharged on 3 August 1918, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

John Wallace was born in Edinburgh. He served initially during the Great War with the Royal Flying Corps and then with its successor the Royal Air Force (service number 34845). On 31 March 1918, he was transferred compulsorily to the 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade and was attached to the 1/8th (City of London) Battalion (Post Office Rifles), London Regiment with which battalion he was killed in action on 14 October 1918 during the Final Advance in Artois. He is buried in Lievin Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France.