Three: Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. Newbold, Royal Army Medical Corps
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Lt. Col. J. C. Newbold, M.B., BCh., F.R.C.A., L.R.C.P, M.R.C.O.G., 18 Newbridge Crescent, Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton’, extremely fine

An interesting War Medal awarded to Private E. L. Cheeseman, M.B.E., Royal Army Service Corps, late South Wales Borderers, who died on 6 November 1940
War Medal 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue addressed to ‘Mrs. Cheeseman, The Retreat, Croft Way, High Street, Selsey, Sussex’, extremely fine (4) £70-£90

John Clifford Newbold was born in Lincoln on 21 August 1911 and was educated at Bishop Stortford College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Blue for swimming. He trained as an obstetrician and gynaecologist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was appointed a Surgical Chief Assistant at Bart’s, working in general surgery, in 1940. After spells at Queen Charlotte’s and the Chelsea Hospital for Women, he was commissioned in the Royal Army Medical Corps and, holding the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, commanded a FSU during the invasion of Normandy, before going right across France to the Rhine. He saw further military service in the Far East and in Jerusalem, before returning to England in 1947. Following his military service he resumed his civilian medical career, and served as consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Wolverhampton. He retired in 1976, and died on 22 September 1992.

Edward Leopold Cheeseman attested for the South Wales Borderers on 3 May 1915, and served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War. He transferred to Class ‘P’ Army Reserve on account of wounds on 30 May 1917, and was discharged on 1 May 1918. In civilian life he served as Clerk to the Rt. Hon. Sir William Jowitt, K.C., M.P., Attorney General for England and Wales, and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1932 Birthday Honours’ List following Jowitt’s resignation (London Gazette 3 June 1932 Edward Leopold Cheeseman, Esq., Clerk to the Right Honourable Sir William Allen Jowitt, K.C., lately Attorney General). Following the outbreak of the Second World War Cheeseman enlisted as a Private in the Royal Army Service Corps, and died in service on 6 November 9140. He is buried in Chiswick New Cemetery, West London.