Pair: Corporal W. P. Keirle, Royal North Devon Yeomanry

Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (51 Cpl. W. P. Keirle. R.N. Devon: Yeo.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Walter P. Keirle) nearly extremely fine (2) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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Walter Percy Keirle was born in Ashford, Braunton, Devon, in 1885. A farmer by occupation, he enlisted circa 1899 into the Royal North Devon Hussars Yeomanry and was awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal in July 1911. Discharged Corporal, ‘Time Expired’, on 3 April 1912, he re-enlisted at South Molton into the 1/1st Wessex Divisional Veterinary Hospital on 8 December 1915 and was mobilised as Private, Wessex Veterinary Hospital, on 23 May 1916. Compulsorily transferred as a Gunner to the Royal Field Artillery at Athlone on 17 May 1917, he was posted as Gunner to the Royal Garrison Artillery, Anti-Aircraft Company, at Epping. He was demobilised to the Reserve on 8 February 1919, having served 3 years and 62 days’ service at Home and in Ireland. In the 1939 Register he is shown as a Mixed Farmer residing at Greinton, Somerset and a Special Constable, Somerset. He died at Chilton Polden, Somerset, on 9 January 1971, aged 85.

Sold with copied research which confirms that this is his complete medallic entitlement.