Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant O. R. Williams, Denbigh Yeomanry, later Royal Welsh Fusiliers

British War and Victory Medals (246 Sjt. O. R. Williams. Denbigh. Yeo.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (246 Sjt. O. R. Williams. Denbigh. Yeo.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (345009 Sjt. O. R. Williams. 24-R.W. Fus.) small official correction to regimental number; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Owen Richard Williams) mounted on card for display, good very fine, the TFWM scarce to unit (5) £700-£900

T.E.M. announced in Army Order of August 1922.

I.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1949: ‘Postal & Telegraph Officer, Lichfield.’

Sold with a contemporary photograph album containing 60 annotated photographs taken in Egypt and Palestine during 1916-17, and a group photograph of N.C.O.’s at Boulogne in January 1919, including Williams as C.Q.M.S. Sergeant Williams appears to have been serving with the signal section of the Denbighshire Hussars Yeomanry and in early 1917 was stationed at Dakhla Oasis which ‘is situated about 500 miles from nearest town. From this “office” we were in communication with main-body 80 miles back by wire - also with “Light car Patrol” 90 miles out, by heliograph’.