Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private W. E. F. Dunford, Royal West Kent Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (204502 Pte. W. E. F. Dunford. R.W. Kent R.); Defence Medal; Service Medal of the Order of St. John, silver, with five Additional Award Clasps (7913. Pte. W. E. F. Dunford. C. of Gloucester Div. No. 2. Dis. S.J.A.B. 1929.) mounted as worn, very fine

Pair: Assistant Nurse Mary G. Clements, British Committee, French Red Cross

British War and Victory Medals (M. G. Clements.) sewn at either end to a 45cm velvet lanyard, upon which is affixed a Civil Defence Corps badge; a Second War hallmarked silver A.R.P. badge; a Birkenhead C.N.T.H. Day Nursery badge, by Fattorini; a QSA dress miniature, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902; a Ysgol Ganolradd Llanfyllin badge; and a small Liberty, Justice and Fraternity badge, generally good very fine (6) £100-£140

William Edward Francis Dunford, a railway porter, was born in Gloucester on 30 November 1897 and served during the Great War with the 3/4th Battalion and 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. He survived the campaign and is listed in 1939 as a railway checker and heavy labourer still residing in Gloucester.

Mary G. Clements served as an Assistant Nurse with the British Committee, French Red Cross in France from December 1915 (not entitled to a 1914-15 Star).