Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Major J. B. Saul, M.C., Yorkshire Light Infantry, late Honourable Artillery Company

British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) good very fine (2) £120-160

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. ‘2nd Lt, York. L.I., Spec. Res., attd. M.G.C.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 25 May 1917. ‘2nd Lt. (temp. Capt.), Yorkshire Light Infantry Spec. Res.’

Private John Bycroft Saul, 1st Battalion Honourable Artillery Company, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 18 September 1914. Later commissioned into the Yorkshire Light Infantry Special Reserve and attached to the Machine Gun Corps. Was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross. Later served as a Major on the N.W. Frontier of India. Additionally awarded the 1914 Star and India General Service Medal with clasp for Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919. With copied gazette extracts and m.i.c.