Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Company Quartermaster-Sergeant J. A. Eley, 23rd Battalion London Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (3160 C. Sjt., 23-Lond. R.); Jubilee 1897, bronze, unnamed, in Wyon, London case of issue; France, Medal of Honour, with swords, bronze, unnamed, in case of issue, extremely fine (4) £180-220

France, Medal of Honour, with swords, bronze London Gazette 15 December 1919. ‘700805 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant John Arthur Eley, 2/23rd Battalion London Regiment (Clapham Junction)’.

J. E. Eley enlisted on 26 September 1914. He was discharged from the 23rd Battalion London Regiment on 7 December 1919 due to sickness and was awarded the Silver War Badge. Sold with original forwarding slip from the Infantry Record Office, London, for the French Medal of Honour; also with copied m.i.c. and gazette and roll extracts. Jubilee 1897 not confirmed.