Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An Order of St. John group of five awarded to Private L. Yewdall, Royal Army Medical Corps, and St. John Ambulance Brigade

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, skeletal (1946-48) issue; British War and Victory Medals (104464 Pte. L. Yewdall. R.A.M.C.); Defence Medal (Corps. Supt. L. Yewdall. S.J.A.B. 96319.) privately engraved naming; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Louis Yewdall.) very fine (5) £100-£140

Louis Yewdall was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, on 31 August 1884 and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps on 18 November 1915. He served with the 40th Casualty Clearing Station and the 61st General Hospital during the Great War in Salonika from 22 July 1917 to 18 February 1919, and was discharged on 15 April 1919. He subsequently served in both the St. John Ambulance Brigade and the Special Constabulary, and was appointed a Member of the Order of St. John in 1940 (London Gazette 21 June 1940), and an Officer in 1948 (London Gazette 9 January 1948). A jeweller by trade, his Defence Medal was possibly engraved in his own hand. He died in Southport, Lancashire, on 17 November 1955.

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