Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel W. A. Clayton, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Royal Garrison Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (Lieut. W. A. Clayton. Hants. & I. of W. R.G.A.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria 1906 (Lieut: W. A. Clayton. R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (Capt: W. A. Clayton. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major. W. A. Clayton.) mounted as worn, generally good very fine (5) £600-£800

William Arthur Clayton was born in Bembridge, Isle of Wight, in 1881 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Duke of Connaught’s Own Hampshire and Isle of Wight Royal Garrison Artillery Militia on 12 May 1900. He served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and was commissioned into the Regular Forces on 16 November 1901. He saw further service with No. 2 Battery Artillery, Northern Nigeria Regiment, during the operations in Northern Nigeria in 1906, and having transferred to the Territorial Force was appointed Adjutant of the 2nd Wessex (Howitzer) Brigade, R.F.A., on 21 November 1913.

Clayton served during the Great War, departing from Southampton to India on 9 October 1914, and then in the Aden theatre of War from 20 October 1915. For his services with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 15 August 1917), and was promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel (London Gazette 25 August 1917). He served the rest of the War in Darjeeling, and was placed on the half-pay list on account of ill-health on 10 May 1922.

Sold with two photographic images of the recipient; and copied research.