Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of nine awarded to Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant (later Lieutenant) W. R. White, Northamptonshire Yeomanry, formerly Royal Dragoons, later Army Service Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse neatly inscribed to centre ‘R.Q.M.S. William R. White, Northamptonshire Yeomanry’ and to top and bottom arms of cross respectively ‘Jany. 14th 1916’ and ‘May 27th 1916’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (2813 Qr. Mr. Sjt., 1/R.D.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (2813 R. Qr. Mr. Sjt., Rl. Dragoons); 1914 Star, with clasp (566 R.Q.M. Sjt., 1/1 North’n. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (566 W.O.Cl.II, M.C., North’n. Yeo.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., type 1 (Inspr.); Voluntary Medical Services Medal, with additional service bar (W. R. White) some contact wear overall, therefore nearly very fine or better (9)
£1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Fine Collection of Medals to 'Old Contemptibles' formed by Major Bob Keay.

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M.C. London Gazette 14 January 1916 (R.Q.M.S., Northamptonshire Yeomanry).

M.I.D. London Gazette 27 May 1916.

William Richard White was born in Portland, Dorset in 1873. He served in France and Flanders with the Northamptonshire Yeomanry from 6 November 1914 and was commissioned into the Army Service Corps in the rank of Second Lieutenant on 14 August 1916, subsequently being promoted to Lieutenant on 14 February 1918.

Sold with copy service papers which confirm additional entitlement to ‘German Medal of The Order of Military Merit.’