Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victory Medal 1914-19 (M-321408 Pte. O. W. De La Mare, A.S.C.), good very fine £30-40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Awards to Channel Islanders.

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Owen Winter De La Mare enlisted in the Army Service Corps in Jersey in April 1917, aged 36 years, stating that he had previously served in the Cape Government as a Transport and Revenue Officer. Embarked for Mesopotamia that July, where he was actively employed as a Light Driver in Motor Transport, he was discharged as medically unfit at Fort Regent in Jersey in March 1919, suffering from neurasthenia - better known as a nervous breakdown. By the time of the German occupation, he was living with his wife at 18 Seale Street, St. Helier - a copy of his German I.D. card and photograph is available from the Jersey Heritage Trust Archive; sold with copied service papers.