Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain A. P. Johns, 16th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, late 13th Battalion London Regiment

1914 Star (1127 Pte., 1/13 Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1127 Pte., 13/Lond. R.) extremely fine (lot)
£140-180

Albert Percival Johns was born in Wellesden, London on 5 February 1893. In civil life he was a Clerk/Civil Servant. As a Private in the 1/13th Battalion London Regiment he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 3 November 1914 (awarded the 1914 Star with clasp - clasp not with lot). He was discharged from the London Regiment on 6 September 1915 on the termination of his engagement. He later served as a Captain in the 16th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment.

Sold with the recipients Discharge Certificate of a Soldier of the Territorial Force; Character Certificate; Officer’s Protection Certificate; Officer’s Physical and Bayonet Training Certificate, 28 September 1917, together with a photograph of the Physical and bayonet Training H.Q. Team, September 1917; War Office letter to Captain Johns, dated 7 November 1921 concerning his demobilization, with envelope addressed to ‘Captain A. P. Johns, York & Lancaster Regt., 77 Chevening Rd., Brondesbury, N.W.6’; damaged named card medal box, with damaged registered envelope; a cap badge and cloth shoulder tab bearing three ‘pips’. With copied m.i.c.