Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (4) (Lieut. W. D. Cronk; 2997 Pte. J. Cheese. Montgom. Yeo.; 45464 Pte. H. Jackson S. Wales Bord.; 730 Pte. G. E. Young. Denbigh. Yeo.) good very fine and better (4) £100-£140

William Douglas Cronk served in France as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery from May 1915. Advanced Captain, he claimed his medals in 1922 from ‘St. Leonards, West Malling, Kent’.

Jasper Cheese, a cowman, was born in Montgomeryshire and served in Egypt and Palestine with the 1st Battalion, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry. Transferred to the 25th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, he was later issued a 20% disability pension on account of stomach troubles contracted on active service in 1916.

Harry Jackson was born in Baguley, Cheshire, around 1892, and initially served on the Western Front with the South Wales Borderers. Transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, he was Killed in Action on 27 May 1917 during the attack on Plum Lane; the Battalion War Diary lists 19 other ranks killed, 76 wounded and 59 missing during the engagement. Aged 25 years, Jackson is commemorated upon the Arras Memorial.

George Edward Young, a clerk, was born in Liverpool and enlisted in the Denbigh Yeomanry on 7 September 1914. Disembarked at Alexandria per H.M.T. Haverford 15 March 1916, he transferred to the 24th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and was killed in action in Palestine on 27 December 1917. The recipient’s Army Service Record, adds: ‘Buried 31/12/17 on Hill 2450 on right of Roman Road going uphill’. Young was later re-interred at Jerusalem War Cemetery.

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