Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Sergeant William Wadley, South Wales Borderers, late 45th Regiment
Abyssinia 1867 (1246, H.M. 45th Regt.); South Africa 1877-79, clasp, 1879 (1791 Cr. Sergt., 1-24th Foot); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (1791 Sergt., S. Wales Bord.) contact marks and wear, the first fine only, otherwise nearly very fine (3) £400-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Choice Collection of Medals and other items to the 24th Foot (South Wales Borderers).

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William Wadley was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, and enlisted into the 45th Foot at Whitehall on 16 June 1864. He served with the 45th Foot in the Abyssinian campaign of 1867, and was promoted to Corporal in December 1868. He became Sergeant in January 1873 and transferred to the 1st Battalion, 24th Foot, on 22 February 1879, and proceeded to South Africa, where he was promoted to Coulor-Sergeant in June 1879. He reverted to the rank of Sergeant at his own request in June 1880, received his L.S. & G.C. medal in November 1882, and was finally discharged at Kilkenny in June 1885 with a pension of 20 pence per day for life. Sold with copy service papers.