Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A civil B.E.M. awarded to William Walton, Checkweighman and Lodge Secretary, Medomsley Colliery, Durham

British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (William Walton) in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine £160-200

B.E.M. London Gazette 1 June 1953 (Coronation Awards) ‘William Walton, Checkweighman and Lodge Secretary, Medomsley Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board. (Consett)’

Councillor William Walton, aged 38 years, of 4 Trent Dale, Leadgate, was awarded the B.E.M. in the Coronation Honours List of 1953 for services to the coal, industry. Walton was born in Villa Real, Durham, became a member of the Consett U.D.C. in 1946, and at the time of the award, had been Secretary of the Medomsley Miners’ Lodge for 11 years and Checkweighman for 9 years. As Councillor, he was Chairman of the Traffic and Safety First Committee; Chairman of the N.W. Divisional Educational Executive and Member of the N.W. Durham, Hospitals Management Committee.

With copied gazette and newspaper extracts and copied photograph of Medomsley Colliery, Consett.