Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Staff Sergeant H. W. Willis, Army Pay Corps, late Royal Horse Artillery and King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (723. Corpl. H. W. Willis. A.P.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (723 S.Sjt. H. W. Willis. A.P.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (723 S.Sjt: H. W. Willis. A.P.C.) nearly very fine (3) £120-£160

Henry Ward Willis was born in Kidderminster in 1872 and attested at Woolwich for the Royal Horse Artillery 7 February 1895. Posted to ‘N’ Battery in April 1895, he transferred to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps 31 May 1896 and Army Pay Corps 20 May 1898. Posted to South Africa during the Boer War, Willis was raised Staff Sergeant 26 March 1907 and posted to Malta. Returned to England 29 December 1914, he elected to draw a pension whilst still serving 19 February 1918 and was discharged in 1919. He died at Nottingham on 26 July 1936, his profession recorded as ‘Wine Merchant’s Clerk & Army Pensioner’.

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