Three: Driver E. Webster, Royal Field Artillery

1914 Star, with later slide clasp (96704 Dvr: E. Webster. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (96704 Dvr. E. Webster. R.A.) good very fine (3) £100-140

Ernest Webster was born in 1888 and attested for the Yorkshire Hussars on 1 April 1906. Discharged on 1 April 1908, he subsequently served as a Driver with the 45th Brigade Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 November 1914. He transferred to the Army Reserve at the request of the Ministry of Munitions, March 1917, for employment with Messrs. Dorman Long & Co. Ltd., Middlesborough, and obtained his final discharge on 14 December 1918.

Sold together with Princess Mary’s Christmas Tin 1914 (empty); ‘bullet’ pencil; cap badge; damaged medal card box of issue; Imperial Yeomanry discharge certificate; certificate Z; certificate of discharge; Army Reserve Munitions Workers document, 5 April 1917; photographs (12) mainly military; Borough of Scarborough driver’s licence; character letter, 27 June 1917; Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. letter of recommendation 17 May 1923; envelope addressed to ‘Driver Webster, 96704 5th Battery, 8th Division, R.F.A., Expd. Force France’; and other papers.

Clasp to the 1914 Star not confirmed.