Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M., Second World War ‘Home Guard’ B.E.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant W. G. Strong, Kent Home Guard, late Scottish Rifles

Military Medal, G.V.R. (19770 Pte., 9/Sco. Rifles); British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Sgt., H.G.); 1914-15 Star (19770 Pte., Sco. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (19770 L. Cpl., M.M., Sco. Rif.), these three late issues; Defence, unnamed; Silver War Badge (433994), lacking pin fitting, nearly extremely fine (10) £500-600

M.M. London Gazette 18 July 1917.

B.E.M. London Gazette 8 June 1944. Recommendation states, ‘Sergeant William George Strong, 15th (Cogham) Bn., Kent Home Guard’. ‘Sergeant Strong has been a member of the Home Guard from the beginning, and for three years has been Pl. Sergeant of No.2 (Shorne) Pl. He has already received a C. in C’s. Certificate of Merit for his work. His energy and keenness are inexhaustible and have been an inspiration to his Platoon. He is largely responsible for its present high state of efficiency’.

Private William George Strong, 9th Battalion Scottish Rifles, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 2 October 1915. For his bravery in action with the unit he was later awarded the Military Medal. During the course of the war he was wounded, receiving gun shot wounds to both arms and the buttocks. Sold with three Ministry of Pensions letters regarding his wounds, dated 1923; receiving 16/- per week for life in regard the wound to his right arm. At the time he was living at Shorne Ridgeway, Gravesend, Kent. During the Second World War he was awarded the B.E.M. in respect of his services as a Sergeant in the Kent Home Guard.

Sold with three Ministry of Pension letters; copied m.i.c. and gazette entries; the recipient’s notebook; unofficial Jubilee Medal 1935; two metal badges; Home Guard cloth badge, and a photograph of the recipient. The medals and badges etc. mounted on a board.