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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 95

Five: Sergeant G. Pontin, Glamorganshire Home Guard, Late Welsh Regiment
1914-15 Star (1919 Pte. G. Pontin. Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (1919 A. Cpl. G. Pontin. Welsh R.); Defence Medal; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., with 'Territorial' scroll suspension (3954598 Sjt. G. Pontin. 5-Welch R.), nearly very fine, with named card box of issue for the Defence Medal, addressed to 'Mr. G. Pontin, 6 Mason St, Aberaman, Aberdare, Glam'; and the recipient's Territorial Army Rifle Association Medal, bronze, the reverse engraved 'Simpson Challenge Cup 1929 2nd "C" 5th. Bn. The Welch Rgt.'

Four: Lieutenant D. Meacock, Glamorganshire Home Guard, Late Royal Fusiliers
1914-15 Star (PS-2978 Pte. D. Meacock. R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D. Meacock.); Defence Medal, good very fine, with the recipient's Military Identity Card

Three: Sergeant F.G. Pole, Glamorganshire Home Guard, Late Army Service Corps
British War and Victory Medals (R4-069393 Pte. F.G. Pole. A.S.C.); Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine, with Army Council enclosure and named card box of issue for the Defence Medal, addressed to 'F.G. Pole, 11 James St., Merthyr Tydfil, Glam'; the recipient's named Home Guard Service Certificate; the recipient's Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve; three portrait photographs, and various other effects including a First Field Dressing, this unused

One: Private D. Griffiths, Glamorganshire Home Guard
Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine, with Army Council enclosure and named card box of issue, addressed to 'D. Griffiths, 60 Standard View, Ynyshir, Rhondda'

One: Private D.F. Thomas, Glamorganshire Home Guard
Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine, with Army Council enclosure and Glamorgan Territorial Army and Air Force Association letter

One: Lieutenant E.H. Jones, Glamorganshire Home Guard
Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine, with Army Council enclosure and named card box of issue, addressed to 'Mr. E.H. Jones, 23, Grove Road, Bridgend, Glam.'

One: Private F.H. Smith, Glamorganshire Home Guard
Defence Medal, good very fine, with Army Council enclosure and named card box of issue, addressed to 'Mr. F.H. Smith, 2. Lon Madoc, Whitchurch, Cardiff'

Defence Medal (A.H. Clift Rudry Pltn 6 Glam Bn HG), contemporarily engraved in large sans-serif capitals, very fine

Home Guard Service Certificate (William Herbert Wye) (lot)

Private George Pontin, enlisted in the Welsh Regiment, and served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War from 9.8.1915; subsequently served with the 1st (Aberdare) Battalion, Glamorganshire Home Guard.

Lieutenant Donald Meacock, born Newport, Monmouthshire, November 1896; educated at Berkhampstead School, Hertfordshire; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, 4.9.1914, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 14.11.1915; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Rifle Brigade, 26.9.1916; suffered gun shot wound to the right arm and forearm on the Western Front, 4.4.1918; subsequently served with the 14th (Swansea) Battalion, Glamorganshire Home Guard.

R4-069393 Private Francis George Pole, born 1896; enlisted in the Army Service Corps, 5.8.1915; transferred to the Reserve, 13.6.1919; subsequently served with the 9th (Merthyr) Battalion, Glamorganshire Home Guard, 9.7.1940 - 31.12.1944.

Private D. Griffiths served with the 2nd (Pontypridd) Battalion, Glamorganshire Home Guard.

Private D.F. Thomas served with the 2nd (Pontypridd) Battalion, Glamorganshire Home Guard.

Lieutenant E.H. Jones, promoted Lieutenant, 1.2.1941, and served with the 3rd (Bridgend) Battalion, Glamorganshire Home Guard.

Private F.H. Smith served with the 11th (Whitchurch) Battalion, Glamorganshire Home Guard.

Private A.H. Clift served with the 6th (Caerphilly) Battalion, Glamorganshire Home Guard.

Sergeant Herbert William Wye served with the 4th (Neath) Battalion, Glamorganshire Home Guard, 30.6.1940 - 31.12.1944.

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