Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Acting Warrant Officer Class II A. L. Redman, Royal Engineers, late Northumberland Fusiliers, who was wounded in action on the final day of the ‘Miracle on the Marne’ in September 1914

1914 Star (8812 Pte. A. L. Redman. 1/North’d Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (8812 Pte. A. L. Redman. North’d Fus.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, very fine (5) £120-£160

Atherstan Lancelot Redman was born in Bradford around 1889 and enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 10 November 1902, his Army Service Record stating his age as 14 years. Posted to the 1st and 2nd Battalions as Boy, he served in Mauritius from 1903-04 and was later tried by District Court Martial in England for stealing and receiving; found guilty, he spent 21 days in military detention in the summer of 1908.

Disembarked in France with the 1st Battalion on 13 August 1914, Redman served as part of 9th Brigade, 3rd Division, British Expeditionary Force. Sent to Belgium, he fought at Mons and the rearguard action at Solesmes, later taking part in the Battle of Le Cateau and the First Battle of the Marne. Wounded in Action on 12 September 1914, his Army Service Record is additionally annotated ‘Nantes’ in reference to No. 9 General Hospital where he received treatment. Evacuated to England per H.S. Carisbrook Castle, Redman was later discharged from the Army upon termination of his first period of engagement on 9 September 1915.

Redman later re-enlisted in the Royal Engineers, serving with the Railway Operating Division as Acting Warrant Officer Class II. Sent to Mespotamia, he spent much of 1918-19 suffering from dysentery at hospitals in Alexandria and Bath. He later rejoined the Royal Engineers for service during the Second War and died aged 58 years on 15 March 1947; he is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Bingley Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Sold with copied Army Service Record.