Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Acting Warrant Officer Class II A. Parker, King’s Own Scottish Borderers
1914 Star, with clasp (9096 Sjt. A. Parker. K.O. Scot: Bord.); British War Medal 1914-20 (9096 Sjt. A. Parker. K.O.S.B.), replacement naming; Victory Medal (9096 A. W.O. Cl. 2. A. W. Parker K.O. Sco. Bord.) mounted for wear, verdigris stains to top of obverse on star, otherwise very fine

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets connecting top two clasps (682 C. Sgt W. J. Parker, Vol: Coy Middx: Regt.) slight contact marks, nearly extremely fine (4) £180-£220

Arthur Parker, believed to be the son of W. J. Parker, attested into the King’s Own Scottish Borderers and served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 2nd Battalion from 15 August 1914. Appointed Acting Company Sergeant Major, he saw later service with the 7/8th Battalion.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts, Medal Index Card, confirming the replacement of his British War Medal at public expense, on 9 April 1925, and the award of a clasp for his 1914 Star.