Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain A. J. Sedgley, 6th (City of London) Battalion (Rifles), London Regiment

1914-15 Star (2.Lieut A. J. Sedgley, 6/Lond: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. J. Sedgley.); together with the recipient’s Masonic Million Memorial Fund Jewel, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘Bro. A. Sedgeley No. 3856.’ good very fine (4) £80-£100

Arthur John Sedgley was born in Camberwell, London, in 1881. An accountant by profession, he served in France as Second Lieutenant from 17 March 1915 with the 1/6th Battalion, London Regiment. The Battalion saw its first major action at the Battle of Loos in September 1915, and Sedgley is listed as wounded in the War Office casualty list of 27 September 1915. Raised Lieutenant on 1 June 1916 and Temporary Captain on 20 July 1917, Sedgley was seconded to the Ministry of Munitions in the spring of 1917. He remained engaged in overseeing and co-ordinating the production and distribution of munitions for the war effort until resigning his commission in 1921.

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