Auction Catalogue
Three: Driver E. Ford, Royal Artillery
1914-15 Star (27634 Dvr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (27634 Dvr., R.A.), together with a Belgian Veterans’ Medal 1909-1934, gilt, polished, about very fine
Pair: Private E. A. Ayres, Army Service Corps
British War and Victory Medals (S4-173649 Pte., A.S.C.), together with Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘337827’, and A.S.C. cap badge, good very fine
British War Medal 1914-20 (M2-229838 Pte. A. G. Shaw, A.S.C.) very fine
Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) 266876 Pte. H. Gundy, R. War. R.; S-23424 Pte. D. E. Jacquot, Rif. Brig.; 47220 Dvr. J. McKinney, R.A.) generally very fine
Defence Medal 1939-45 (1); War Medal 1939-45 (3), one of these last with slack suspension, generally very fine and better (16) £80-120
E.A. Ayres, from Reading, Berkshire, served in France from 13 April 1916 to 15 July 1917 and was discharged as no longer physically fit for war rervice in March 1918; sold with a large quantity of original documentation, badges and a sporting medal, the former including three letters from his brother Bob serving with the Berkshire Yeomanry in Egypt, prior to his being posted missing at Gallipoli on 21 August 1915, with subsequent War Office notification of death and Royal condolences; Certificate of Discharge; Character Certificate; War Pension Certificate; Soldiers "Active Service" Testament 1916, etc.
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