Auction Catalogue

26 March 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 192

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26 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£750

A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ M.B.E. group of six awarded to Lieutenant Ernest William Popplewell Fulcher, Singapore Volunteer Corps, late Norfolk Regiment and Royal Engineers

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919, reverse inscribed, ‘Lieut. E. W. P. Fulcher, 3rd Norfolk Regt., 1918’; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lieut.); Jubilee 1935 (E. W. P. Fulcher); Coronation 1937, unnamed; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R. (Lieut., S.V.C.) mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (6) £320-360

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘... for valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Mesopotamia.
M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1920 (Mesopotamia.

Ernest William Popplewell Fulcher was born in Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 7 August 1884. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and Faraday House, London. He became an Electrical Engineer, and in 1913 was elected an A.M.I.E.E. His working life was spent in Malaya where he arrived in 1906 as an Assistant Electrical Engineer. Having probably been a member of the Singapore Volunteer Corps prior to 1914, on the outbreak of war he returned to England and joined the British Army. On 12 June 1915 he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Because of his former employment and training he was seconded to the Royal Engineers on 2 October 1915. Fulcher was promoted Lieutenant, Norfolk Regiment, on 1 July 1917, and remained seconded. He served in France, arriving there on 9 December 1915, then in Egypt and Mesopotamia. For his services in the latter theatre of war he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the M.B.E. Lieutenant Fulcher relinquished his commission whilst retaining his rank on 1 April 1920. Returning to Singapore after the war he took up his duties as Municipal Electrical Engineer. As a Lieutenant in the Singapore Volunteer Corps he was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces L.S. Medal, this published in the Straits Settlements Government Gazette of 4 May 1928. He was later awarded the Jubilee Medal (Straits Settlements Government Gazette 24 May 1935) and Coronation Medal (Straits Settlements Government Gazette 26 May 1937). Latterly living in Wimbledon, he died on 13 April 1947. Sold with copied research.