Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (9) (76834 Spr. H. Clark. R.E.; 76464 Spr. J. E. Cole. R.E.; 194688. Spr. E. J. Jones. R.E.; 30937 Spr. D. W. P. King. R.E.; 141697 Spr. E. F. Ledger. R.E.; WR-317252 Spr. M. Ludlow. R.E.; 181443. 2.Cpl. G. W. Rayner. R.E.; 267724 Spr. H. Smith. R.E.; 222346 Spr. J. Urquhart. R.E.) very fine and better (9) £140-£180

Hugh Clark was born in Glasgow in 1876 and worked pre-war as a postal telegraphist. He attested for the Royal Engineers Signal Service at Hitchin on 5 March 1915, but his Army Service Record notes that his early months in the Army were marred by drunkenness and improper dress. Posted to France with “L” Signal Battalion, he was discharged in 1919.

Donald W. P. King served during the Great War with 9th Field Company, Royal Engineers, and suffered a shell wound to the head in October 1916.

George William Rayner was born in Lowestoft in 1879 and worked pre-war as a parcels porter for the Great Eastern Railway. He served during the Great War with the Railway Operating Division, Royal Engineers, his skill as a shunter being recorded as ‘Superior’ on 16 February 1918.