Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Warrant Officer Class I G. W. King, Hampshire Regiment, attached King’s African Rifles, who was wounded on the Western Front in October 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (8772 Cpl. G. W. King. 1/Hamps: R.); British War and Victory Medals (8772 W.O. Cl. 1. G. W. King. Hamps. R.); Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Militare, bronze, mounted court-style, polished, nearly very fine (4) £200-£240

Italian Medal for Military Valour, bronze London Gazette 31 August 1917: 8772 Regimental Serjeant-Major George William King (Lance-Serjeant, The Hampshire Regiment), King’s African Rifles.

George William King attested for the Hampshire Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 August 1914. He was wounded in the early stages of the War, and is recorded as being in hospital in France on 16 October 1914. He was subsequently seconded to the King’s African Rifles.

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