Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Acting Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant H. S. Mahoney, Royal Field Artillery, later Army Pay Corps

1914-15 Star (3050 Pte. H. S. Mahoney, A.P.C.); British War and Victory Medals (L-29701 A.-B. Q.M. Sjt. H. S. Mahomey, R.A.), together with a ‘K.A.H.’ Grammar School Medal, gold, with silver reverse, inscribed to ‘H. Mahone, Captain 1907’ and East Ham School Sports Association Medals (2), one in silver and enamel and the other in bronze and enamel, and both inscribed to ‘H. S. Mahoney’, extremely fine (6) £70-90

Harold Sydney Mahoney, who was born in East Ham in 1893, was working as a clerk on the Stock Exchange at the outbreak of hostilities. Enlisting in the Army Pay Corps in November 1914, he went out to France in the following year, but, sometime thereafter, transferred to the Royal Field Artillery. Having then attained the rank of Acting Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant, he was discharged on account of sickness in May 1917. A recipient of the Silver War Badge, he died at Barking in November 1931.