Orders, Decorations and Medals

Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (396211 Bndsmn. H. Hayward, Shrops. Yeo.) minor official correction to rank, minor contact marks, good very fine £80-100

Henry Hayward was born in Pontesbury, Shropshire in 1884. In the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war with the 1st Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry on 11 September 1914 and later served with the Royal Lancaster Regiment and Lancashire Fusiliers. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Shropshire Yeomanry at Shrewsbury on 5 March 1921. He transferred to the 4th Battalion K.S.L.I. in July 1922 but returned to the Shropshire Yeomanry a year later. Private (Bandsman) Hayward was awarded the Efficiency Medal by Army Order 193 of August 1934 and was additionally entitled to the 1914 Star trio. He was discharged on 21 July 1939. With copied m.i.c. and other research.