Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Corporal J. P. Williams, Royal New Zealand Artillery

Permanent Forces of the Empire L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (943 Cpl., R.N.Z.A. (1919)); New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (Cpl., R.N.Z.A.) good very fine (2) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, An Extensive Collection of Medals for Long and Meritorious Service.

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Approximately 159 medals awarded to New Zealand forces between November 1916 and April 1933.

John Patrick Williams was born at Lyttelton, New Zealand on 20 February 1877. A Fisherman by occupation, he applied for enrolment in the Torpedo Corps of the Permanent Militia on 11 May 1896. On 4 September 1896, then a Gunner, he was recommended to the Under Secretary for Defence by the Commander, Lyttelton Naval Artillery, for enrolment in the Torpedo Corps from the Lyttelton Naval Artillery. He next applied on 27 December 1900 for enrolment in No. 2 Company, New Zealand Permanent Militia. He was directed on 21 March 1901 to report to the Permanent Militia Depot at Buckle Street in Wellington for examination, attested to No. 2 Service Company on 3 April, and took the Oath of Allegiance as a probationer on 11 April 1901. He successfully completed his probationer course at Auckland on 3 October 1901 and qualified for the rank of 2nd Class Sapper. In that rank, he transferred to the Royal New Zealand Engineers on 15 October 1902, transferred to Wellington on 13 November 1906, and to Lyttelton on 23 September 1907. The R.N.Z.E. became the Electric Light Section of the Royal New Zealand Artillery on 1 October 1907. Williams remained at Lyttelton until discharged with the rank of Corporal on 18 July 1922. The notification of his Permanent Force Long Service & Good Conduct Medal of 3 May 1919 was published in the New Zealand Gazette of 8th May 1919, p. 1305: No. 943 Corporal John Patrick Williams, Royal New Zealand Artillery, and he received his Long and Efficient Service Medal at Lyttelton on 28 February 1922 (Memo 6 May 1921). Sold with about 30 pages from his Defence Force File and New Zealand Gazette.