Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain S. J. Lawry, Royal Garrison Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (Capt. S. J. Lawry.); Defence Medal, nearly very fine and better

Pair: Second Lieutenant I. K. Preston, Royal Garrison Artillery, late 28th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Artists Rifles)
British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. I. K. Preston.) very fine (5) £70-£90

Samuel James Lawry was born in Truro in 1873 and served in France as Lieutenant from 27 September 1916. Raised Captain, he claimed his medals in 1922 whilst living at ‘Crowdown, Seymour Park, Plymouth’. The recipient’s son, Samuel John Lockhart Lawry, was educated at Furzie Close School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, later becoming a Temporary Chaplain, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War.

Sold with a small hallmarked silver medallion engraved ‘Furzie Close. Boxing 1925.’ and ‘S. J. L. Lawry.’ to reverse; and copied research.

Ivor Kerrison Preston was born in Christchurch, Hampshire, on 21 May 1884 and is recorded in 1911 as a solicitor living and working in Bournemouth. Appointed to a commission on 23 December 1917, he crossed the Channel to France on 22 February 1918 and later claimed his medals in 1923 from an address at Boscombe Cliff, Bournemouth. He was a leading authority on the poet and painter William Blake.