Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (L. L. Wallace.) extremely fine and scarce £70-£90

Leonard Leslie Wallace was born in Cheadle on 26 November 1870 and is recorded in 1911 as a marine engineer with responsibility for searching cargo and merchant vessels on behalf of the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board. Afforded two medal index cards, the first states ‘Mersey Defences 1st Eng.’, noting ‘ineligible for medals’ and stating his address for correspondence as No. 1 Pilot Boat, Pilot Office, Canning Pierhead, Liverpool. The second notes his employment as a civilian with the Exam[ination] Service, later serving about the Pilot Boat Queen Victoria. The recipient lived at Wallasey and died in 1951.

Confirmed as sole entitlement.