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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 93

Four: Lieutenant H.S. Porter, Essex Home Guard, Late Royal Fusiliers and Machine Gun Corps
1914-15 Star (2144 Pte. H.S. Porter. R.Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H.S. Porter.); Defence Medal, good very fine, with cloth unit insignia; a Machine Gun Corps Christmas Card 1918; and a portrait photograph of the recipient

Pair: Private S.C. Allen, Essex Home Guard
Defence Medal; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Sydney Charles Allen), good very fine, with Essex Territorial Army and Air Force Association letter

One: Private G.M. Brackley, Essex Home Guard
Defence Medal, good very fine, with the recipient's named Home Guard Service Certificate

One: Corporal E.A.A. Read, Essex Home Guard
Defence Medal, good very fine, with the recipient's Home Guard membership and identity cards, and Weapon Training proficiency letter

One: Private S.A. Foster, Essex Home Guard
Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine, with named Army Council enclosure and named card box of issue, addressed to 'Mr. S.A. Foster, 3 Rose Cottages, Netteswell Cross, Harlow, Essex.'

One: Captain M.L. Larman, Essex Home Guard
Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine, with named card box of issue, addressed to 'Capt. M.L. Larman, 14 Branksome Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex'

Home Guard Service Certificate (George Wayland), together with the recipient's Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve; Soldier's Pay Book; two War Office Letters; and various group and portrait photographs (lot)

Lieutenant Harold Sewell Porter, enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, 8.12.1914; served during the Great War with the 24th Battalion on the Western Front from 15.11.1915; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps, 24.3.1917; subsequently served with the Essex Home Guard.

I.S.M. London Gazette 14.9.1945 Allen, Sydney Charles, Sorting Clark and Telegraphist, Clacton-on-Sea.

Private Sydney Charles Allen served with the 13th (35th G.P.O.) Battalion, Essex Home Guard.

Private George Michael Brackley served with the 5th (Brentwood) Battalion, Essex Home Guard, 5.5.1941 - 31.12.1944.

2267 Corporal Edward A.A. Read, served with the 16th (Southend-on-Sea) Battalion, Essex Home Guard.

Private S.A. Foster served with the 10th (Harlow) Battalion, Essex Home Guard.

Captain Mark Linington Larman, educated at Mill Hill School; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, 25.2.1918; served during the Great War in the U.K. (not entitled to any Great War medals); promoted Captain, 25.5.1943, and subsequently served with the 16th (Southend-on-Sea) Battalion, Essex Home Guard.

405781 Private George Wayland; born 1899; enlisted in the Army Service Corps, 13.12.1916; served during the Great War on the Western Front; transferred to the Reserve, 8.10.1919; subsequently served with the 17th (Colchester) Battalion, Essex Home Guard, 7.5.1942 - 31.12.1944.

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