Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain F. A. H. Homan, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, late Royal Garrison Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (Capt. F. A. H. Homan.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (89506 C.S. Mjr: F. A. H. Homan. R.G.A.) rank officially corrected on last, good very fine

Three: Driver J. N. Stables, Royal Field Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (710153 Dvr. J. N. Stables. R.A.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, with two Additional Award Bars (41446. Pte. J. N. Stables. Lancs. S.J.A.B. 1946.) nearly very fine (6) £100-£140

Frederick Algernon Holman Homan was born at St. Pancras, Middlesex, on 11 April 1874, and attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery in London on 21 March 1892, having previously served in the 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. He was advanced Company Sergeant Major on 13 November 1905, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 92 of 1911. He served overseas in Gibraltar from 1 January 1909 to 10 January 1913, with the rest of his service with the Artillery being at home. He transferred to the Army Ordnance Corps on 21 March 1913, was promoted Conductor on 31 October 1914, and was commissioned an Assistant Commissary of Ordnance, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant on 3 January 1915. Promoted temporary Deputy Commissary of Ordnance, with the honorary rank of Captain, on 18 January 1916, he served during the Great War in Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey, and the Islands of the Aegean Sea from 28 August 1916 to 8 February 1918, being confirmed in the rank of Captain on 3 January 1918. He retired on 1 January 1929 and died at Upham, Hampshire, on 4 November 1945.

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John Nelson Stables was born in Bolton, Lancashire, in 1898, the son of Sergeant-Major Wheeler John Nelson Stables Sr., Royal Artillery, and served with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War. He saw further long service with the Lancashire St. John Ambulance Brigade, and died in Bolton on 11 October 1960.