Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Trooper W. Martyn, New Zealand Mounted Rifles, later New Zealand Army Service Corps, who was wounded on 16 May 1915, and died at home on 21 November 1918

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (7675 Tpr. W. Martyn N.Z.M.R. 9th Cont:); 1914-15 Star (5/134 Cpl. W. Martyn. N.Z.E.F.); British War and Victory Medals (5/134 Cpl. W. Martyn. N.Z.E.F.) naming on VM upside down, contact marks to first, otherwise very fine and better (4) £260-£300

William Martyn was born at Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand on 22 March 1883, and served with the 9th Contingent, New Zealand Mounted Rifles in South Africa during the Boer War, and with the New Zealand Army Service Corps during the Great War in Egypt and Gallipoli. Wounded on 16 May 1915, he died at home on 21 November 1918, having been discharged ‘from wounds inflicted or disease contracted while on active service’, and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Linwood Cemetery, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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