Family group:

Order of St. John Lifesaving Medal, 2nd type, bronze (Presented to Thomas William Lewis, 8th July 1898) with custom-made suspension and brooch bars, inscribed, ‘2nd February 1898 T. W. Lewis’, suspension tightened, ring bent

Pair: Gunner William Thomas Lewis, Royal Garrison Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (172167 Gnr. W. T. Lewis, R.A.) very fine and better (3) £300-350

Thomas William Lewis, a Porter with the London, Chatham & Dover Railway (L.C. & D.R.) at Shortlands Station, living at Foxbury Villas, Bromley Gardens, Shortlands, Kent, was awarded the Order of St. John Lifesaving Medal in bronze on 26 April 1898. The award was made for rescuing D. S. Saul, who had fallen in front of a rapidly approaching train at Shortlands Station on 2 February 1898. With some copied research.

William Thomas Lewis, a Passenger Guard with the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (S.E. & C.R.), living at 14 Bromley Gardens, Shortlands attested for service on 11 December 1915, aged 24 years. Posted to the Reserve, he was mobilized on 9 July 1917, aged 26 years. He served with a Siege Battery, R.G.A. in France, 7 November 1917-30 November 1918.

With damaged registered envelope for the W.W.1 medals, addressed to ‘Mr W. T. Lewis, 31 Meadow Rd., Shortlands, Kent’; with three W.W.1 period postcards, and two of a later period. With copied service papers.