Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Acting Corporal E. G. Hunt, Royal Field Artillery, later “A” Coast Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

1914 Star, with copy clasp (28850 Gnr: E. G. Hunt. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (28850 A.Cpl. E. G. Hunt. R.A.) very fine (3) £70-£90

Ernest George Hunt was born in Oakridge, Gloucestershire, around 1884, and served in France with the 38th Battery, Royal Field Artillery from 11 September 1914. He suffered skin burns from ‘head to feet’ as a result of a gas shell explosion in September 1917, and was evacuated to the Birmingham War Hospital for 84 days of treatment. Transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery, he was discharged at his own request after 18 years of service on 16 December 1920.