Seven: Second Lieutenant W. S. Sarney, East Surrey Regiment, late 6th Dragoon Guards and Dorsetshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Paardeberg, Relief of Kimberley, Johannesburg, Rhodesia, Transvaal (No. 3776 Private W. Sarney 6th Dragoon Guards) neatly renamed; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (No. 32242 Coy. Sergeant-Major W. S. Sarney) neatly renamed; 1914-15 Star (6760 Q.M. Sjt. W. S. Sarney, Dorset. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (2 Lieut. W. S. Sarney); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, privately engraved naming, ‘8249 Cpl. W. S. Sarney, Madras V. Guards’; Belgium, Kingdom, Military Decoration, Leopold II, gilt, with distinguished service riband, mounted as worn, and housed in an A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd. case, polished overall, thus fine or better (7) £300-£400

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2005.

William Samuel Sarney served as a Quartermaster Sergeant with the 6th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 July 1915, and was subsequently commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment in August 1917.