Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Three: Lance Corporal E. Portlock, 1st Garrison Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiemnt

British War and Victory Medals (13579 Pte., R. War. R.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, no clasp (13579 Pte., R. War. R.) officially impressed naming

Six: Private E. L. Portlock, Australian Forces

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals; Australian War Service Medal, all officially impressed (SX4953 E. L. Portlock) generally good very fine (9)
£400-500

Ernest Portlock was born in the Parish of St Lukes, Gloucester, in 1887, and enlisted into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment at Bristol on 29 August 1914. Posted to the 1st Garrison Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he served in the Sudan from 20 August 1915 to 28 December 1916. He then served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force until 17 May 1919. Sold with full confirmation and 14 copied pages from his correspondence file which notes him in December 1915 as serving with the ‘British Camel Corps, Khartoum’.

Ernest Leslie Portlock was born in England on 25 June 1907. He enlisted on 10 June 1940 and served during the Second World War as a Sapper in the Australian Engineers. He was discharged from 2/25 Field Park Company on 4 September 1945.