Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Gunner T. King, Royal Garrison Artillery, late Norfolk Artillery Militia, who suffered from acute shell shock on the Western Front

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 (2736 Gnr: T. King. Norfolk Art: Mil:); 1914-15 Star (4547. Gnr. T. King, R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (SR-4547 Gnr. T. King. R.A.) mounted as worn, minor staining to obverse of VM, nearly very fine and better (4) £140-£180

Thomas King was born in 1881 and witnessed extensive service during the Boer War. Posted to France on 12 October 1915, he is recorded as suffering from hysteria in May 1916 whilst serving with the 51st Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Sent to Base Depot on 31 May 1916, he survived the war and was discharged Class “Z” in the spring of 1919.