Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. A. Mackway, 12th (County of London) Battalion (The Rangers), London Regiment, who suffered extensive shrapnel wounds during the Second Battle of Ypres in May 1915

1914-15 Star (2384 Pte. W. A. Mackway, 12-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2384 Pte. W. A. Mackway. 12-Lond. R.) good very fine (3) £60-£80

Walter Archibald Mackway was born in Lambeth in 1892 and attested for the London Regiment at Tottenham Court Road on 3 September 1914. Posted to France with the 1/12th Battalion on 9 March 1915, his Army Service Record states that he suffered flesh wounds to the back at the end of May 1915. Evacuated to England, he spent a long period of time under medical supervision at the Northern General Hospital (Leicester), St Mark’s College (Chelsea), and at Tooting Military Hospital; initially afflicted by tenderness to the spine and difficulties in walking, he made a good recovery and saw further service with the Labour Corps before being discharged at Crystal Palace in January 1919.

Sold with copied service record.