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Auction: 8010 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 143

Three: Corporal A. Taylor, Royal Engineers 1914-15 Star (2488 Cpl. A. Taylor, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (2488 Cpl. A. Taylor. R.E.), good very fine or better, with the following contemporary documentation: - recipient´s Demobilisation Papers - Thirty-One Postcards sent by recipient during War Service, many bearing the censor´s mark, mainly addressed to ´Mrs. A. Taylor, Station Road, Wombwell, Yorkshire´; set of unused photographs from the Ypres front - Three Official photographs of German captured troops; Four copies of The Buzzer trench magazine; a concert program for The Tykes Pair: Corporal W.A. Stevens, South African Army, Late Royal Horse Artillery British War Medal (Cpl. W.A. Stevens. S.A.R.O.D.S.); Victory Medal, bilingual version (Cpl. W.A. Stevens. S.A.R.O.D.S.), very fine, with prize medal, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1912), obverse engraved ´B.B. Bty. R.H.A. Cpl. W.A. Stevens´, reverse engraved ´P.D.H.A. Winner Junior Division 1912´, riband bar and recipient´s Permanent Pass "A.A." Battery, R.H.A., dated April 1908 Three: Private G.C. Sands, Royal Army Ordnance Corps British War and Victory Medals (032717 Pte. G.C. Sands. A.O.C.); Defence Medal, good very fine, with the related miniature awards, mounted for wear Pair: Sapper G.A. Brown, Royal Engineers British War Medal (532468 Spr. G.A. Brown. R.E.); France, Croix de Guerre, reverse 1914-1918, last very worn, therefore good fine (10) Estimate £ 80-120 2488 Corporal Arthur Taylor, native of Yorkshire ; served during the Great War with 49th Divisional Signal Company Royal Engineers in the French Theatre of War from 26.11.1915; he served as a Despatch Rider, November 1915 - February 1919; transferred to the Army Reserve 30.3.1919. Croix de Guerre unconfirmed.

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