Three: Second Lieutenant E. W. Brooks, Royal Berkshire Regiment, formerly Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
1914-15 Star (12478 Sjt. E. W. Brooks. D. of Corn. L. I.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. E. W. Brooks.) very fine

Three: Private R. Roberts, Welsh Regiment
1914-15 Star (5-3344 Pte. R. Roberts. Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (5-3344 Pte. R. Roberts. Welsh R.) very fine

Three: Corporal J. Tudor, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
1914-15 Star (12505 L. Cpl J. Tudor. Shrops:L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (12505 Cpl. J. Tudor. Shrops. L. I.) good very fine

Pair: Second Lieutenant J. G. Webb, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. J. G. Webb.) in named card box of issue, extremely fine (11) £180-220

Edgar William Brooks was born in Islington, London, on 11 November 1896, and was educated at the Stationers Company’s School, Hornsey. He attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 2 September 1914, was promoted to Sergeant in July 1915 when serving with the 9th Battalion, and qualified in bombing. He served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 8th Battalion from 22 October 1915. Whilst serving in Salonika, he applied for an officer cadetship in early 1917, which was recommended in the field by Major H. F. Smith and certified by Henry Mills, the ex-Mayor of Islington, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant, 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, on 26 September 1917. He was wounded at St. Quentin on 19 March 1918 when he lacerated his right wrist on German barbed wire; was invalided home; and returned to duty in April 1918. He was disembodied on 2 March 1920 from 11th Reserve Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. He died at Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, Sussex, in 1973.


Robert Roberts attested for the 1/5th Battalion, Welsh Regiment (Territorial Army) and served with them during the Great War, landing at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on 9 August 1915. He later transferred to the Hampshire Regiment and was demobilised on 12 May 1920.


John Tudor attested for the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry and served with the 8th (Service) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 September 1915. He transferred to Class ‘Z’ Army Reserve on 20 March 1919.


Joseph Granville Webb was born in Birmingham in 1888, and was commissioned from an Officer Cadet unit on 26 June 1918. He served as a Second Lieutenant in the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 August 1918. He died at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, on 7 June 1979.