Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major E. J. Stapleton-Bretherton, Remount Service

1914-15 Star (Captain, Remount Serv.); British War and Victory Medals (Major) good very fine (3) £80-100

Edmund Joseph Stapleton-Bretherton was born in Farnham, Hampshire on 19 December 1881. In civilian life he was employed as a Land Agent. He was gazetted a Temporary Captain in the Remount Service at Ormskirk on 28 September 1914. He entered the Egypt theatre of war on 14 March 1915, serving as a Captain in the 21st Remount Squadron at Alexandria. With the unit he was posted to Lemnos in August 1915 and Salonika in February 1916. He was then appointed Adjutant and Quartermaster of the Remount Depot at Belbeis in March 1916 and thence to the H.Q. Remount Section at Ismailia in August 1916. Captain Stapleton-Bretherton returned home on sick leave in August 1917, suffering from sycosis barbae. In September 1917 he was posted to the G.H.Q. in France and was Deputy Assistant Director of Remounts, British Armies in France, from February 1918. As a Temporary Major he was demobilised in February 1919. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 5 July 1919). In May 1921 he was appointed a Temporary Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment D.F.

With copied service papers, gazette extracts and m.i.c.