Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Acting Corporal P. C. Cave, Royal Engineers, who served in the Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia
British War and Victory Medals (WR-554399 A. Cpl. P. C. Cave. R.E.) good very fine

Pair: Sapper E. J. David, Royal Engineers
British War and Victory Medals (127127 Spr. E. J. David. R.E.) good very fine

Pair: Sapper W. Forbes, Royal Engineers
British War and Victory Medals (298272 Spr. W. Forbes. R.E.) good very fine (6) £80-£100

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

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Percival Charles Cave was born in Deptford, Kent in August 1891 and was a qualified carpenter on being called up in December 1916, when he joined the Royal Engineers. He had likely been employed in a ship building capacity since the outbreak of war. Drafted to the Inland Water Transport, he was embarked for Mesopotamia in December 1917, where the unit was responsible for the transport of troops and equipment from Basra to Baghdad, a mission entailing the maintenance of an ever growing fleet of river craft. For his own part, Cave was employed at Basra dockyard, as a ship’s carpenter and storekeeper, although he was admitted to No. 40 Base Hospital in May-June 1918. Re-embarked for the U.K. in December 1919, he was demobilised in the new year.

Ernest Jones David was born in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales and was employed as an overseer for the General Post Office prior to the Great War. He subsequently served in the R.E. Signals in Mesopotamia and India.
Sold with a photographic image of the recipient.

William Forbes was born in Echt, Aberdeenshire in January 1892. Following his enlistment in December 1915, he was drafted to No. 348 Quarry Company, R.E., in which unit he served in France from July 1917 to May 1919.