Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant G. R. White, North Staffordshire Regiment, late Acting Sergeant, Army Veterinary Corps (Regimental No. 1)

1914-15 Star (1 Cpl. (A. Sjt) G. R. White. A.V.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. R. Whire.); Defence Medal; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre 1914-1916, mounted as worn, the Star and Victory Medal sometime gilded, otherwise nearly extremely fine (5) £80-£120

Gilbert Rowell White entered the war in Egypt on 8 April 1915, with “B” Mobile Veterinary Section, Army Veterinary Corps, as a Corporal (Acting Sergeant) with Regimental number ‘1’. He was commissioned on 11 October 1915, as 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th North Staffordshire Regiment. He was the a Lieutenant with 80th Brigade Entrenching Company, 12th Lancashire Fusiliers, and finally 3rd North Staffordshire Regiment. Sold with copied Medal Index Card which gives his address as ‘The North Stafford Hide, Skin & Fat Company, Stoke on Trent.’ Croix de Guerre not confirmed,