Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lance-Corporal G. Price, Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
1914-15 Star (13457 Pte. G. Price. S. Lan: R.); British War and Victory Medals (13457 Pte. G. Price. S. Lan. R.); Defence Medal, mounted as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine

Four: Corporal H. Lloyd, Army Service Corps
1914-15 Star (M2-101692. Pte. H. Lloyd. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M2-101692 Cpl. H. Lloyd. A.S.C.); Defence Medal, mounted as worn together with an erased Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18, nearly very fine

Pair: Private W. Harley, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 24 December 1917
1914-15 Star (241396 Pte. W. Harley. R. Lanc: R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (241396 Pte. W. Harley. R. Lanc. R.) unsuccessful attempt to erase naming details from BWM, nearly very fine

Pair: Private A. Wilson, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and Machine Gun Corps
1914-15 Star (1636 Pte. A. Wilson. R. Lanc: R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (1636 Pte. A. Wilson. R. Lanc. R.) good very fine (13) £100-£140

Gwyn Price attested for the Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) on 9 September 1914, and served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 September 1915. He was discharged on 24 January 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge, no. B111397.

Henry Lloyd was born in Liverpool in 1887 and served in the Mercantile Marine. He attested for the Army Service Corps, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 September 1915. He was wounded on 16 August 1917, and was discharged to the Reserve on 16 March 1919.

William Harley attested for the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and served with the 1st/5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 3 September 1915. He died of wounds on 24 December 1917, and is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.

Albert Wilson attested for the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 February 1915. He subsequently transferred to the Machine Gun Corps.