Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant E. Frith, Royal Field Artillery
1914-15 Star (1401. Bmbr. -A-Cpl.- E. Frith, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (1401 Sjt. E. Frith. R.A.) machine engineered light vertical scratches to reverse of Star, otherwise very fine

Three: Private W. Boothman, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, who was thrice wounded in action during the Great War
1914-15 Star (11661 Pte. W. Boothman. Shrops: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (11661 Pte. W. Boothman. Shrops. L.I.); together with a hallmarked silver prize Medal, the obverse engraved ‘Presented to 11661. L/Cpl. W. Boothman 6th. K.S.L.I. B.E.F. 1918.’, good very fine (7) £100-£140

Ernest Frith was born in 1889 and served in France with the Royal Field Artillery from 5 October 1915. Posted to the 1/3rd London Brigade, R.F.A. (T.) in 1916, he survived the campaign and was discharged on 9 December 1918.

Walter Boothman, a resident of Accrington, Lancashire, served in France with the 5th Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry from 22 May 1915. Reported as wounded in action in the Bishop’s Castle Advertiser & Clun News on 15 October 1915, he was later reported by the Ludlow Advertiser in the (Battle of the Somme) casualty roll of 4 November 1916. A year later he was reported as wounded in action in the Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry) on 2 October 1917, likely in consequence of the Battle of Passchendaele. Boothman survived the Great War and was discharged to Army Reserve on 25 February 1919.