Orders, Decorations and Medals

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (Lieut. A. S. Atkins; E. Buxton) good very fine and better (2) £50-70

Arthur Samuel Atkins was born on 18 June 1888 in Streatham, England and was educated at Crauford College, Berkshire and the South African College, Cape Town. He served in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Volunteer Rifles (Mounted Infantry) in the Natal Rebellion of 1906 and served in Brand’s Horse, September 1914-September 1915, seeing service in German S.W. Africa. Later, as a Captain he served with the 16th Mounted Rifles. He was then ‘granted indefinite leave to proceed to Europe for military service in the Imperial Army’ and on 17 July 1918 embarked on H.M.T. Galway Castle for England. There he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards Special Reserve, 5 September 1918. He then served in the Russian Relief Force, 12 May-22 September 1919. Lieutenant Atkins was demobilized on 31 December 1919. Sold with copied service papers and m.i.c.

Ethel Buxton served with the Y.W.C.A. and entered France on 6 July 1917. Sold with copied m.i.c.