Six: Private A. Tildesley, North Staffordshire Regiment, later Deputy Clerk, Staffordshire County Council

1914-15 Star (17345 Pte. A. Tildesley. N. Staff: R.); British War and Victory Medals (17345 Pte. A. Tildesley. N. Staff. R.); Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Civil Defence Long Service Medal, E.II.R., unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, very fine (6) £100-£140

Arthur Tildesley attested for the North Staffordshire Regiment 5 April 1915 and served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 July 1915. Invalided out of the army suffering from a gunshot wound to the jaw, he was treated for his wounds by the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir Harold Gillies at the Queen’s Hospital Sidcup (Gillies cousin, Sir Archibald McIndoe, later joined Gillies’ practice, and during the Second World War worked for the Royal Air Force - his patients forming the ‘Guinea Pig Club’)

Tildesley was discharged on 24 April 1917, and was awarded a Silver War Badge, no. 164901. Subsequently joining Staffordshire County Council, he was awarded the 1953 Coronation Medal in his position as Deputy Clerk of the Council.

Sold with copied Coronation Roll extract.