Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (5) (11255 Cpl. A. S. Coates. A.P.C.; 22235 Pte. C. W. Hughes. A.P.C.; Capt. W. H. Melvill-Smith.; 1707 A.Cpl. O. Sauge. A.P.C.; 1430 Cpl. W. J. White. A.P.C.) edge bruising and contact marks to BWM to Melvill-Smith, good fine, otherwise nearly very fine and better (5) £100-£140

Arthur Stanley Coates was born in Salford on 15 December 1889 and served with the Army Pay Corps in Italy (Genoa) from 18 December 1917.

Charles William Hughes was born in Sedgeley on 25 August 1886 and enlisted in the Army Pay Corps on 19 August 1918. He served at the A.P.O. Wimereux, and is recorded in 1939 as an Assistant School Teacher.

William Harold Melvill-Smith originally served during the Great War as Pay Sergeant on the Staff of the Supervising Paymaster. Appointed to a commission as Lieutenant in the Army Pay Department 1 May 1916, he was advanced Temporary Captain 15 July 1917 and served at the C.P.O. Potchefstroom and C.P.O. Cape Town; released from service 11 January 1922, his BWM was issued in South Africa.

Oliver Sauge was born in Stoke Newington, London, on 6 September 1890. He served with the Army Pay Corps in Salonika from 8 September 1916 and later joined the C.P.O. at Tiflis (Tbilisi).

William John White was born in London in 1872 and attested at Hounslow for the Army Pay Corps on 8 July 1890. He served in South Africa during the Boer War and was discharged on 31 March 1920; he died at St. Pancras Hospital on 31 March 1938.

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