Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Driver H. Mawdsley, Royal Field Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (79858 Dvr. H. Mawdsley. R.A.) good very fine

Pair: Company Quartermaster Sterling, Royal Engineers
British War and Victory Medals (WR-317169 C.Q.M. Sjt. E. C. Sterling. R.E.) the VM with unofficial replacement suspension, otherwise very fine

Pair: Sapper W. Kinnear, Royal Engineers
British War and Victory Medals (75189 Spr. W. Kinnear. R.E.) good very fine

Pair: Private W. E. Williams, Royal West Kent Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (204448 Pte. W. E. Williams. R.W. Kent R.) good very fine

Pair: Private H. Hearse, King’s Royal Rifle Corps
British War and Victory Medals (R-21197 Pte. H. Hearse. K.R.R.C.); together with the recipient’s wife’s Berkshire Education Committee School Attendance Medal, bronze, 2 clasps, 1904-05, 1905-06, the reverse of both engraved ‘Lily Woodley’; and an unofficial white metal Coronation Medal 1911, good very fine

Victory Medal 1914-19 (103357 2.A.M. S. Day. R.A.F.) very fine (13) £140-£180

Mark Edward Williams was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, in 1884 and attested for the 4th Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry on 30 September 1916, having previously served with the Smethwick Volunteers. He transferred to the Royal West Kent Regiment on 24 February 1917, and served with the 3rd/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 June 1917. He further transferred to the Labour Corps on 15 July 1917, and was discharged on 15 November 1919, receiving a small pension on account of repeated treatment for problems with varicose veins, aggravated by the long marches.

Sidney Day was born in 1885 and enlisted in the Army on 11 October 1916. Posted to the Royal Flying Corps on 6 October 1917, he transferred to the Royal Air Force as a Founder Member on 1 April 1917, and thence to the Reserve on 20 April 1919. He died on 30 April 1920.

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