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Auction: 24112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 541

A Great War pair awarded to Private H. G. Faull, Essex Regiment, Rifle Brigade, Labour Corps and Army Service Corps, who suffered a gunshot wound while serving in the Egyptian theatre British War and Victory Medals (3104 Pte. H.G. Faull. Essex R.), very fine (2)

Henry Glover Faull was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire on 28 February 1887, the only son alongside two daughters born to Henry Faull, a Methodist minister, and his wife Elizabeth. The 1891 census shows the family living at 286 Park Lane, Macclesfield, Chester, and employing a domestic servant. By 1901 the family had moved to Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, where their youngest daughter Mary had been born two years previously.

Faull attested into the Essex Regiment at West Ham on 25 October 1914 and was posted to the 6th Battalion. He entered the Egyptian theatre of war on 24 July 1915, where he served as part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. On 27 March 1917, Faull was wounded in action by a gunshot wound to the left thigh. The circumstances of this event are unfortunately unclear, but he does not appear to have been invalided home.

While overseas, Faull transferred to the 21st Battalion, Royal Rifle Brigade on 23 July 1917 (no. 211753). He was not to serve long with the Rifle Brigade, however, as he transferred to the Labour Corps a few months later on 14 November 1917 (no. 360988). For a third and final time on 27 September 1918, Faull transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps (no. S/440599), with whom he performed clerical duties and served in Palestine. Faull did not return to England until 28 February 1919, possibly in consequence of a wound as he was discharged from Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield on 21 March 1919, marked 'sick and wounded'. Faull was disembodied upon demobilisation on 18 April 1919 and afterwards received a pension owing to disability attributed to a gunshot wound.

After the War on 15 September 1919 at St. James' Church, Muswell Hill, Middlesex, Faull was married to Blanche Winifred Lane, who was born in Derbyshire in 1884. They were living together at 78 Marlborough Rd, Woodford, West Ham in 1921 with Faull working as a sales manager in engineering at B.W. Wood Ltd. in London. The 1939 register documents the couple living in Hornchurch, Essex with Faull now working as a local director of an iron, steel and mechanical machinery manufacturing company. Blanche is noted as a participant in the Women's Voluntary Services. Faull later died at age 68 in Romford, Essex in 1955, with Blanche surviving him until her death in 1961 in Sussex; sold together with copied research including service record and medal rolls.

Faull is further entitled to a 1914-15 Star.


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