Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Second Lieutenant W. May, Calcutta Scottish, Auxiliary Forces India, late Royal West Surrey Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (Pte., Cal. Scot, A.F.I.) mounted court style as worn, very fine (5) £100-140

Wilfred May whose residence at the time of claiming the Great War medals was ‘Gutteridge Hall, Weeley, Essex’ is confirmed as having served with the Royal West Surrey Regiment during the Great War and having entered theatre of war ‘France and Flanders’ on 31 August 1918. Medal Index Card refers, a copy of which accompanies the lot.

Efficiency Medal is for India not Territorial