Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal G. J. Pass, Royal Fusiliers and Army Pay Department, later Special Constabulary
British War and Victory Medals (26731 Cpl. G. J. Pass. R. Fus.); Defence Medal (Gilbert Pass) privately impressed naming; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Gilbert Pass.) mounted as worn, better than very fine

Four: Private P. R. Gladwell, Army Pay Corps, later Special Constabulary
British War and Victory Medals (3577 Pte. P. R. Gladwell. A.P.C.); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Percy R. Gladwell.) mounted as worn, minor edge bruise to VM, generally very fine (8) £80-£100

Gilbert John Pass, a schoolmaster, enlisted at Mill Hill for the 7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on 10 December 1915. Disembarked at Havre 28 July 1916, he likely fought during the Battle of the Somme and was later admitted to hospital at Etaples suffering from bronchitis. Transferred to Base Details 3 January 1917, Pass joined the Army Pay Department unit at Wimereux 26 February 1917. He survived the Great War and later taught at St. Christopher’s School in Eastbourne; recorded in 1939 as a Special Constable in Eastbourne, he died in the coastal resort on 8 January 1952.

Percy Robinson Gladwell was born in Woodford, Essex, on 16 December 1894. He attested for the Army Pay Corps in London on 12 November 1914 and served initially as a Clerk at York. Posted to France 7 June 1916, he returned home to the A.P.O. Dover 27 May 1917 and was subsequently twice charged with neglect of duty; admonished on the second occasion, he transferred to Army Reserve in May 1918 and was discharged in December 1918. Recorded in 1939 as a Senior Clerk and Cashier at Slough, he died in Southampton in 1967.