Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Warrant Officer Class 2 J. W. R. Assheton (alias Graham), London Regiment

1914-15 Star (3447 Pte. J. Graham, 6th Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals, small M.I.D. oakleaf (3447 Pte. J. Graham, 6-Lond. R.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial, with Second and Third Award bars (6573010 W.O. Cl. II J. W. R. Assheton, 19-Lond. R.), first three and last mounted as worn, British War and Victory Medals worn; others very fine and better (6) £140-180

M.I.D. not confirmed.

John William Ralph Assheton was born on 15 June 1897. He enlisted into the 1/6th London Regiment under the name of ‘Jack Graham’, and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 27 October 1915. He later served with the Royal West Kent Regiment. With the Territorial Army between the wars, he was appointed a Warrant Officer Class II in the 19th Battalion London Regiment in 1931. At the time of the Coronation in 1937 he was C.S.M. of the 33rd (St. Pancras) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, R.E. Employed as a Foreman at the Office of Works, he was called up for military service with the 30th Battalion Middlesex Regiment on 2 September 1939. Serving as a C.S.M., he was discharged on 2 July 1945.

Sold with a quantity of original documents, including: Warrant Officer Class II document - named to ‘John William Ralph Graham’ with ‘Graham’ unofficially placed in brackets and amended ‘Assheton’; photograph album c.1924; Calling Out Notice, 1939; Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Notebook Diary, 15 December 1942-20 December 1943; Soldier’s Release Book; Certificate of Transfer to the Army Reserve, 1945; Record of Service Card; Driving Licence; St. Pancras Regiment Old Comrades’ Association Membership Card; Corps of Military Police Sergeants’ Mess Honorary Member’s Card; Silver Jubilee Programme, 1935 - named to Assheton, and sundry other papers and loose photographs.