Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant G. F. Spence, West Yorkshire Regiment, late Royal Welsh Fusiliers
1914-15 Star (20036 Pte. (A. Sjt.) G. F. Spence. R.W. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (- Lieut. G. F. Spence.) the ‘2.’ neatly erased, nearly extremely fine

Three: Private W. Jones, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was wounded in action at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917
1914-15 Star (5902 Pte. W. Jones. R.W. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (5902 Pte. W. Jones. R.W. Fus.) staining to VM, good fine and better (6) £120-£160

George Frederick Spence served in France with the 14th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers from 2 December 1915. Posted to the Somme, he was admitted to No. 34 Casualty Clearing Station on 8 July 1916 suffering from tonsillitis. Recovered from sickness, he was discharged to a commission as Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment on 30 October 1917. He survived the Great War and is later recorded in the UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-23, as a Lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment, his address listed as ‘Farthing Cottage, Halse, Taunton, Somerset’.
Sold with copied MIC, which appears to erroneously record Spence as a Second Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Light Infantry.

William Jones, a collier, was born in Llanelli, Carmarthen, around 1878, and attested for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Cardiff on 14 July 1899. He served in South Africa from 8 June 1900 to 7 March 1902, and was subject to 96 hours of imprisonment with hard labour at Krugersdorp in August 1901 after disobeying an order and using improper language. Posted to France with the 14th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers from 27 December 1914, he was later sent home on medical leave to Felinfort House, Pontardus, South Wales, after receiving a gunshot wound to the buttock.