Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private H. Rhodes, Labour Corps, late Welch Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (454225 Pte., Labour Corps), good very fine

Pair: Private P. G. Randall, Labour Corps

British War and Victory Medals (246452 Pte., Labour Corps), these with edge bruising and contact marks, good fine

Pair: G. Saxon, Voluntary Aid Detachment

British War and Victory Medals (V.A.D.), good very fine

Pair: Worker W. K. Doubleday, Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Army Corps

British War and Victory Medals (47 Wkr., Q.M.A.A.C.), the first of these with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (8) £80-100

The following entry for Rhodes appears in the National Roll of the Great War (Section XI, Manchester):

‘He joined the army in November 1916 and in December 1917 he proceeded to France where he saw severe fighting on the various sections of the front. He took part in the Battle of the Somme and many other important engagements. He was wounded in action on the Marne in June 1918. On his recovery he served in the Labour Corps until November 1919, when he was demobilised, holding the General Service and Victory Medals (32, Dorset Street, Hulme, Manchester).’

Also sold with a Church Lads’ Brigade “In Memoriam” certificate in the name of Lance-Corporal J. Rhodes, 16th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, dated 1916.