Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (2409. Sjt. W. L. Parker. 2. Bn. 23. R.W. Fus: 1873-4.) edge bruising, very fine £160-£200

William Lewes Parker, a harness maker, was born in the Parish of Newnham, Kent, around 1853, and attested for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Rochester on 22 February 1871. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, he served in West Africa and Gibraltar, and was discharged in 1880 in consequence of being found medically unfit for further service. The recipient’s Army Service Record, adds: ‘personal debility and probable brain softening... Mental faculty is greatly impaired.’

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