Campaign Groups and Pairs 291 Family Group:
Three: Sergeant W. H. Hales, South Wales Borderers 1914-15 Star (15773 Pte. W. H. Hales. S. Wales Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (15773 Sjt. W. H. Hales S. Wales Bord.) with remnants of original OHMS transmission envelope, addressed to ‘Mr. W. H. Hales, 36 Mary Street, Seven Sisters, Neath’, edge bruise to BWM otherwise nearly extremely fine
Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Ldg. Fireman William H. Hales) good very fine
Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Jewels (2), the first gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Bro. William H. Hales Richmond Lodge No. 7270 Exalted 27.11.45.’, with top riband bar engraved ‘1st Dec. 31.3.36’ and suspension bar engraved ‘2nd Dec. 18.4.40’; the second silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented to Bro. William H. Hales C.P. by the Richmond Lodge No.7270 Raised on the 18 Apl. 1940’, with top riband bar inscribed ‘Primo’ and suspension bar engraved ‘Richmond Lodge No.7270’; together with a R.A.O.B. lapel badge, good very fine (6) £70-£90
15572 Sergeant William Henry Hales was born at Newtown, Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. He was by trade a collier for the Evans and Bevan colliery company, and was residing at Seven Sisters, Neath when he enlisted into the South Wales Borderers on 3 September 1914. He served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from September to November 1915, and subsequently in Salonika, and was promoted Sergeant in January 1918. He was invalided with bronchial pneumonia, malaria and other debilities in December 1918, and was discharged to the Army Reserve in February 1919. He died at Seven Sisters in 1945.
Leading Fireman William Henry Hales, the son of the above, was born at Seven Sisters, Neath, on 20 April 1914 and appears as a milkman in the 1939 Register. He died in 1987.
Sold with copied research. 292 Three: Regimental Sergeant Major G. Lloyd, Welsh Regiment
1914-15 Star (15148 S. Mjr. G. Lloyd. Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (15148 W.O. Cl. 1. G. Lloyd. Welsh R.) mounted as worn, good very fine (3)
£60-£80
George Lloyd was born at Llanthewy - Rhydderch, Abergavenny in 1869, and attested for the Welsh Regiment at Cardigg on 7 April 1887, having previously served in the Regiment’s 3rd (Militia) Battalion. Advanced Colour Sergeant on 28 March 1902, he served with 2nd Battalion in India and at Home, and was discharged after 21 years’ service on 6 April 1908; despite having an exemplary record he does not appear to have received a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
Following the outbreak of the Great War Lloyd re-enlisted in the Welsh Regiment in September 1914, and was posted to the 19th (Pioneer) Battalion, being appointed Regimental Sergeant Major on 19 March 1915. He served with the 19th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 December 1915 until May 1917, and was discharged on 1 August 1919, having attained the rank of Warrant Officer Class I. He died on 24 January 1944.
Sold with copied research. 293 Three: Sergeant E. S. Willsher, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
1914-15 Star (8829 Pte. E. S. Willsher. Shrops: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8829 Sjt. E. S. Willsher. Shrops. L. I.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘504161’, retaining pin missing from reverse of badge, and catch crudely re-soldered, generally very fine (4)
£60-£80
Ernest Sydney Willsher was born in Plumstead in 1889 and attested for the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry at Woolwich on 28 January 1908, having previously served in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, he served with them in India from 5 September 1909 to 16 November 1914, and then with the British Expeditionary Force during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 December 1914. Advanced Sergeant in the 7th Battalion, K.S.L.I., on 28 July 1917, he served in the Battles of the Scarpe, Arleaux, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, and Cambrai. His service on the Front was regularly interspersed with admissions to various Field and General Hospitals, suffering from various disabilities, and he was discharged as being surplus to military requirements on 8 March 1919, after 11 years and 40 days’ service, being awarded a Silver War Badge.
Sold together with the recipient’s riband bar and a K.S.L.I. cap badge; and copied research. 294
Three: Private R. J. Price, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment), who died of wounds on the Western Front on 4 September 1915
1914-15 Star (2365. Pte. R. J. Price. Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2365 Pte. R. J. Price. Midd’x R.); Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Robert James Price, Middlesex Regiment’, the Scroll mounted alongside the Buckingham Palace enclosure in a glazed display frame, very fine and better (4)
£100-£140
Robert James Price was born in Hornsey, Middlesex, and attested there for the Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regiment on 6 August 1914. He served initially in Gibraltar guarding German prisoners of War, and whilst there was severely wounded by a bayonet in the side during rioting by the 8,000 German prisoners held there. Recovering, he served with the 1st/7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 March 1915, and was severely wounded in both legs whilst engaged on a night patrol operation on 25-26 August 1915, when his party was intercepted by the enemy. For his gallantry in bringing in the wounded under heavy enemy fire during this operation Private William Moutrie was awarded the D.C.M. Price died of wounds at No. 5 Stationary Hospital, Abbeville, on 4 September 1915, and is buried in Abbeville Cemetery, France.
Sold with named Record Office enclosure for the British War and Victory Medals; and copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.
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