Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private I. G. Wildman, Bedfordshire Regiment, later Army Pay Corps, who was wounded in action at Gallipoli
1914-15 Star (4069 Pte. I. G. Wildman. Bedf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (4069 Pte. I. G. Wildman. Bedf. R.) mounted court-style for display, very fine

Three: Acting Sergeant A. Brewer, Army Pay Corps
1914-15 Star (1539. Pte. A. Brewer. A.P.C.); British War and Victory Medals (1539 A.Sjt. A. Brewer. A.P.C.) mounted court-style for display, nearly extremely fine

Three: Acting Corporal H. A. Davies, Army Pay Corps
1914-15 Star (1867. Pte. H. A. Davies. A.P.C.); British War and Victory Medals (1867 A.Cpl. H. A. Davies -- C.) part erasure of unit to BWM and VM, otherwise very fine

Pair: Corporal H. J. Dawkins, Army Pay Corps
British War and Victory Medals (12097 Cpl. H. J. Dawkins. A.P.C.) BWM officially re-impressed, nearly very fine (11) £120-£160

Ivan Gordon Wildman was born in Luton on 25 March 1895 and enlisted at Luton for the 5th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment on 8 September 1914. Embarked for Gallipoli per H.M.T. Braemar Castle, he disembarked upon the peninsula 11 August 1915 and suffered a gunshot wound to the right shoulder five days later. Admitted to No. 15 Stationary Hospital at Mudros, he was invalided to the U.K. and sent to the 2nd Southern General Hospital at Bristol.

Enlisting in the Army Pay Corps at Dublin 9 July 1917, Wildman was advanced Corporal 19 April 1918 and admitted to the Horton War Hospital on 11 April 1919 - likely suffering from influenza. Discharged from the Army Pay Corps 24 April 1920, Wildman later lived with his wife Gladys at Fulwood Gardens in Twickenham; he died at the West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth on 31 March 1982.