Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Private D. Williams, Royal Army Medical Corps and Constable, Liverpool City Police

1914-15 Star (39498 Pte., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (39498 Pte., R.A.M.C.); Liverpool City Police Good Service Medal (2), bronze (Con. 355 “A” Daniel Williams), rev. inscribed, ‘Presented by Watch Committee 7th April 1939’, mounted as worn; another, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1950, rev. inscribed, ‘Presented by Watch Committee to Co. 355. A. D. Williams 7-4-44’, with silver brooch bar, very fine and better (5) £220-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Brigadier Brian Parritt, C.B.E..

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Daniel Williams, a native of Leeswood, near Wold, Flintshire, joined the Army in 1914. Serving with the R.A.M.C. he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 27 July 1915. He served as a stretcher bearer in some of the major battles of the war - Somme and Ypres, was gassed and was for three months unable to see. Postwar he served as a Police Constable in the Liverpool Police where he served for 31 years. In the Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary he gave ‘Exemplary service and was commended on two occasions for exceptional police work in connection with the detection of crime.’

Sold with three original photographs. In the first he is in his army uniform, shown wearing his Red Cross qualification badge, good conduct stripe and wound emblem, in the second he appears in a hospital and in the third he is shown in his police uniform. Also with copied m.i.c. and some notes on service.