Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private H. Few, Wiltshire Regiment, who was wounded on the Western Front in 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (3-861 Pte. H. Few. 1/Wilts: R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-861 Pte. H. Few. Wilts. R.) good very fine (3) £100-£140

Herbert Few was born in Devizes, Wiltshire, in 1879 and attested for the Wiltshire Regiment as a Boy Soldier on 27 February 1893. He served with them in Burma from 23 February 1894 to 6 November 1895; and then in India from 11 February 1899 to 11 March 1905, and was discharged on 14 March 1905. Re-enlisting in the Wiltshire Regiment on 3 September 1914, he served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 October to 22 December 1914, being wounded by gun shot to the right thigh; he subsequently served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from 22 November 1915 to 24 January 1919. He was discharged on 23 March 1919, after a further 4 years and 202 days’ service.

Sold with copied service papers.